Draw Hand Poses Tutorial

It is crucial never to guess how a hand should look like. Also the finest artists look at the hand they are not using before them as a example when they are drafting hands. Likewise you should find a pocket-sized mirror and use it to look at your hand from different perspectives or to transform your left hand into a right hand.

A recurring novice's fault is to make the hands overly small. You should examine the proportions exactly when you sketch a hand. As a guideline, position your hand in front of your head. Observe how it goes all the way from the chin to your hairline. Think of this especially when sketching hands on or near people's heads in your drawings.

Whilst starting to study how to draw hands it is ideal to depict a unstrained hand posture first. Notice how the digits are not flat when the hand is unstrained. They all of the time bend a little, the little finger much more than the index finger.

First analyze the proportions of your digits. Look at your digits with the palm turned away. You will discover that the digits are approximately one-half the length of the complete hand. Every finger is divided into three sections of different lengths. The upper section (with the nail) is around two thirds of the middle part, and the center part is around two thirds of the lower part (which gives way to the knuckles)