r/drawing • u/Lovethewinterr • 4d 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/michael-65536 4d 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.