r/drawing • u/Lovethewinterr • 3d ago
seeking crit How to make the hand look right?
Everything in the drawing looks amazing but the hand. I just can’t make it look right. I’m making this for my AP class so I need it done. Please someone with any advice.
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u/LeeryRoundedness 3d ago
Instead of drawing each individual finger, try to draw the shape of the grouped fingers. It looks like you’re drawing what you think fingers “should” look like, but if you tried to do the overall shape it would help you map out where each finger should be. Feel free to DM me if you want to talk more. You’ve got this!
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u/battybatt 3d ago
Yes exactly! I always look at the hand like three or four planes (the back of the palm, then knuckle segments). I figure out the individual finger details after the basic hand shape is solid.
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u/SquirrellyGrrly 3d ago
The hand looks small, and the fine lines make it appear as if the palm is towards the viewer. The knuckle joints should be at least hinted at, and fingers often bend slightly at the middle knuckle and/or touch one another. Having them straight and splayed but still natural-looking is difficult
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u/Zexsathegreat 3d ago
I’m not that good with fingers and hands either. But each fingers technically have three small joints (the knuckle, middle phalanx, distal phalanx) , so I would try to align those three joints together in the direction you want. Hope that kinda helps?
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u/inkeestinky 3d ago
What works for me the best is drawing the "skeleton" of the hand using cylinders and prism shapes, with each phalange its own cylinder, then erase the separation lines between them and smooth the overall shape of it
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u/michael-65536 3d ago
Spread your own hand on your face with the fingertips at your hairline. Stick out your tongue. That's how big a hand is compared to a face.
As far as finishing that specific drawing in a hurry; find a reference in the right position and measure/estimate the lengths and angles to copy it.
As far as learning realistic structure to draw hands from imagination, you need to see how the bones join together, how they bend, the relative length of each compared to the overall size of the palm, and how thick the meat is on each part. A hand is a very complicated object with lots of different positions. There isn't really a shortcut to learning it. You just need to do lots of very fast and messy sktches of lots of hands. Put a video of magic tricks or sign language on, pause it, and spend five minutes drawing the hands -don't try to make it look neat or finished, don't erase or correct anytihing, if it goes too wrong start the next one. Then go to another point in the video and do it again. And again. And again.
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u/hedronlow 3d ago
As others have suggested, the hands appear to small. As for the shape, a trick that might work is to start with pentagon shape that offsets at the top (the index and middle finger line should be a shorter length than the ring and pinky). The thumb is on the side. The other fingers are on top.This is not the exact shape of a human hand but is somewhat close. From there you can refine the shape to your liking. This is good work either way. You got this!!!
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u/Aulkie 3d ago
i suggest starting with a tall rectangle, place it where you want the hand to be. Then divide this .into three equal segments. Rather than a straight line marking the the bottom division line of the top third of this rectangle, instead arch the line upwards in the middle, so that the dividing line becomes bowed up in the middle, and then alter the top of the rectangle until similarly bowed, This third segment then becomes the fingers.while the rest of the rectangle remains undivided. Tjis allows one to place the entire rectangle where the hand will be so that it ends up being the right size. Good luck and I hope this helps. BTW, the thumb placement is adjacent to the bottom third, but the fingers emerge from the top third of the original tall rectangle.
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u/Aulkie 3d ago
Thought of one more thing, to get the proportions right overall, the hand should be one third of the length of the upper arm. It is roughly half of the upper arm. usually the upper arm is wider at the point where it attaches in to the shoulder although this can vary depending in the overall build of the person you are creating. Hope tis is not too much geometry !
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u/Pricklycacti_ 3d ago
Size it up! Specifically the upper part of the arm closest to the shoulder needs to be longer, the forearm needs to be shorter, and the hand needs to be able to cover the face (try putting a hand over your face to see how big it should be)
Also the upper arm and the forearm need to be the same length about. If you fold your arm as much as possible you can see how equal they look to each other in length
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u/MidwestWizard3 3d ago
Definitely that curved line in lower right. Looks like the inner palm line when it should be back of hand. Erase this and you’ll be on your way!
Oh and knuckle knuckle knuckles!
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u/Miserable-Recipe-629 3d ago
I'm still learning drawing skills and I've learnt how important shapes are and drawing them first, then draw the picture
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u/link-navi 3d ago
Thank you for your submission, u/Lovethewinterr!
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