All language subtitles for 055 Drawing Hands From Scratch.en

In this lecture we're going to be learning how to draw the hand.

So let's go ahead and begin.

So the hand is probably one of the most complex things that you can draw on the human body.

But we're going to break it down into some simple shapes and forms that really make it much much easier

to draw the hand.

So first let's start with the palm of the hand.

I want to just draw a hand that straight out like this.

I'm going to start with this part right here the Palm.

So the basic shape for this is basically just going to be

kind of a rectangular type of trapezoid.

And what we're looking for is something around that size that shape but you'll notice that down here

this line is straight.

And that's going to be down at the wrist and up here where the fingers start.

We actually kind of slant this line a little bit.

So it's not just a perfectly straight line coming across that's gonna make her hand look a lot more

accurate.

So that's the first mistake a lot of people make is they think the fingers are just on a straight line

cross but they actually kind of angle up like that next.

What we want to do is we want to mark out where the longest finger is going to be which is going to

be the middle finger.

And so the way we do that is we basically take this distance right here in the middle of the palm and

the middle finger should be the same distance.

So where we can work that out is if we just use our pencil in like this.

And then we can just go ahead and kind of mark that out like that.

All right.

Great.

Next let's go ahead just kind of sketch some lines coming off right here and right here for the wrist

and the arm.

Then we'll start to sketch in the thumb so the thumb will come off this side so the index finger will

always be on the longer side of this shape and we're just gonna kind of sketch in a triangle as the

base of our thumb and we'll come back to that in a second.

Next let's go ahead and draw in our fingers so let's start with the pinky.

So I'm just gonna draw the outside line for the pinky and then I'll do the index finger like this.

Then we can go ahead and I'm gonna go ahead and divide this in half so the distance from here to here

we want to divide that in half so that'll be between the two middle fingers and then I'll go ahead and

divide that space so that it basically all gets divided into quarters and that will kind of give us

a rough idea of where the space should be for our fingers.

So you'll notice that the pinky finger and the index finger are kind of pointing out opposite directions.

So this is pointing out like that and that's pointing out like that.

And that's what we want our fingers spread when we haven't like this and you'll see that how my fingers

point out a little bit in opposite directions.

So we want to make sure we draw it.

And that will make our hands look more accurate.

That's another mistake that if you make sure you draw it that way your hands will look much better.

All right.

So our middle finger is right at that height.

So this is gonna be a middle finger right here.

So what I'm gonna do is I'm just gonna go ahead and sketch in kind of two lines like this just very

lightly.

They're going to slightly taper in towards the top but not too much.

And then I can go ahead and I can sketch in my index finger just like that and you can see that I'm

leaving a little bit of gap between each finger you can see that there's some gap in between each one

of my fingers.

So I want to make sure that we kind of leave that in there then our ring finger is going to be a little

bit shorter and then our pinky finger is going to be the shortest

like that then we can go ahead and sketch the thumb in.

So for the thumb we're just gonna have it kind of come off like a rectangle like this little tapered

and then we can angle upwards like that into kind of a trapezoid

kind of point that out a little bit all right.

So there's our basic breakdown.

This could actually probably be just a slight bit wider that.

All right great.

And then from here we can start darkening in and figuring out where our final lines will go.

So when I go ahead and start with my fingers so I can just kind of sketch like this.

These are straight fingers so we're not going to really have any bends in him or anything like that.

So you can see that it's basically a straight line for the most part.

It's a little bit of curve down here at the bottom so kind of curves and then back out.

And then I kind of tapers back up towards the front like that and then I just round the finger off do

the same thing for this one

I mean kind of connect these with kind of a wedding in between each finger like that

and then right here we can have the finger come down like that and there's gonna be kind of a crease

there in the sun between the thumb at this point your finger and go ahead and draw the thumb in

kind of smooth area out a little bit more and actually let's have a look at my hand as reference you

can see that the pinky is much shorter and so this is looking kind of weird.

So when we draw our fingers we want to kind of follow kind of a shape or a line like that.

All right.

So we probably need to actually make the point or finger shorter and the pinky finger shorter and that's

gonna make it look a lot more natural.

So let's go and make a pinky finger about that short and we'll shorten the index finger down to about

that length right there and that looks much more accurate.

Maybe shorten that thumb a little bit.

Perfect.

Now we can go ahead and draw the fingernails so for the fingernails I'm just going to have them go right

out to the edge of the fingers.

I just need to draw a line coming down that side and that side and then a round shape down there.

Sam on this one.

It's just slightly curved line then a slightly curved line at the bottom

and for the thumb to get a shape like that

perfect and then let's go ahead and kind of draw some lines and just to kind of represent the knuckles

so right up here we're gonna get a little bend and the fingers can good roll a quick little line like

that across there and then write about in the middle of each finger.

We're going to get a little bit of a line so we can draw those in as well.

And then we can go ahead and kind of just lightly draw some ovals to represent the knuckles and based

off of those we can kind of add some lines in there just to kind of show that those are the knuckles

and then we kind of get some tendons in between each finger.

That you can even kind of sketch in a little bit of the wrist bone right there and get some response

over here as well

go ahead and darken these lines and just so you can see it all but better

kind of curve a side of that hand.

A little bit more now especially you're drawing hands.

I definitely recommend that you look at reference.

Luckily you have hands right there on you sometimes will be angles you can't look at when you are looking

at your own hands you might have to use some photograph reference but definitely look at reference because

hands are very difficult to draw on.

Even for me I sometimes need to look at a little bit of reference.

All right.

So there is a front face in hand.

The reason why we drew this hand is just so I could kind of demonstrate to the proportions and the just

general information about drawing the hand.

But usually you're not going to be drawing a hand like this.

So let's go ahead and break it down into its form so that we have a better understanding of how to draw

this.

So this shape right here is not just that shape.

It's kind of more of a shape like this.

So we're drawing it from this angle.

We kind of have that front plain that we see from this view but then it kind of is like that maybe maybe

you can actually angle this down a little bit more for the pose that I'm going to draw so much going

to angle the shape down more like that.

So that's the basic form of the palm of the hand it's just something like that.

All right.

And then off that you can kind of draw your risk coming off that which would kind of be a cylinder which

could have more of a square shape but something like that coming up and for your fingers you're just

basically drawing cylinders so could you draw a cylinder right here for that finger and then for the

next part of the finger the next joint go and just draw something like that

and draw something like that for that finger and basically all of these fingers.

I won't sketch my lights and cylinders but you can just imagine that there are all cylinders right

that go ahead draw the pinky in there so the pinky would also be just kind of a cylinder moving back

and then another cylinder and another cylinder

right.

And then you could just really draw that out finish the hand out

all right so there's the basic form of the hand.

Another thing to mention is when you're drawing the fingers if you're drawing a straight finger so let's

say we're looking at the finger from the side like this

you're going to get the first knuckle or I guess that's kind of the last knuckle.

And then you'll get a knuckle in the middle and a knuckle down here at this part of the hand.

And so for each one of those where the finger bends you're gonna get a slight kind of bump out in the

skin.

All right.

So just kind of like that for each one.

And when that finger bends so if we go ahead we draw it a more bent finger

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than what we get is these bumps really become exaggerated and we get more creases in between them.

Right.

So like that.

So here they're a little bit more straight and they're they're going to kind of sort of squish up a

little bit more.

So we want to make sure that when you're drawing the hand and it's going like that that those bumps

become a little bit more squashed and make them kind of squish out a little bit more.

All right.

So another common hand form that we're gonna be drawing is the fist when you're drawing characters.

A lot of times you might want to be drawing a fist.

So let's go ahead and draw that.

So we're gonna go ahead and just start by sketching out the basic shape

something like that and then we'll have the risk coming off there.

And then what I like to do is I like to kind of sketch out where my fingers are gonna be.

So we're gonna be facing the fist is gonna be face like this.

And so what we want to do is we want to kind of draw each individual finger being clamped down.

So what I'll do is I'll just kind of sketch out about where the bottom of those fingers are gonna be

something like that and then draw a line like this.

So I'm just kind of sketching out this kind of a shape right there and it's gonna actually be kind of

more like a form.

So what we get is something like this.

I'll kind of darken these lines a little bit more so you can see better.

But on top of this we kind of get this form going on where we have this top surface up here and then

we have the surface right here and that kind of makes this plain right there.

That's kind of more of this plane.

And this top plane is more of the top of my hand.

And so that's what we're basically blocking out right there.

Then we can go ahead and kind of sketch out the thumb.

So kind of do that triangle that we did before kind of angled in like that and then do the top of the

thumb like that again.

Just look at your reference look at your own hand and you'll kind of see these same shapes going on

in their

then we get the palm of the hand right here so we can just kind of draw it in like that and we get the

other half of the poem right here.

We're just gonna draw that and like that you can see a kind of almost looks like a boxing gloves and

that's perfect that's exactly what we want.

So next we want to do is we want to start breaking these up in different fingers.

So if you remember the fingers are supposed to angle out like that but when you're drawing hand actually

they're going to angle inward or when you're drawing the first angle inwards you can see when you look

at mine like Pinky angles angles inwards and my point or finger angles inwards rather than when I open

it.

The angle outwards is because they kind of get inverted as they close.

So I want to make sure that our lines are slightly angled inwards so my pointer finger right there is

kind of angled just the slightest bit inwards.

And then my pinky I actually will draw off of this edge so angles and words like this and then I'll

go ahead divide that last space in half for the rest of my fingers and our fingers will fit into each

one of those little sections.

So when I go ahead and draw those in

so I'm just kind of dividing these up into their own separate fingers and you see when I look at my

reference I kind of get these round shapes there and up there.

So just kind of on a copy that in it's important to notice that this angle right here for this front

plane is kind of angled downwards more than the top of the fingers.

So you want to make sure that you kind of capture that in their

No go ahead and draw this finger in

some length that know what I'll do is I'll go ahead and kind of erase this out a little bit so it's

not so dark but I can use it as a guide for my knuckles are gonna be so these knuckles right here.

Go ahead and just kind of draw those in there.

And actually this is looking kind of funny so I'm gonna kind of rework some of this

maybe make that Pinkie a little bit thinner.

Maybe I'll bring the top of this down just a little bit.

I might have been a little bit too angled

and go and shade this in just to kind of help with the form a little bit more.

Kind of the tendons in the wrist going on right there.

I think each one of these fingers just needed to be rounded out a little bit more just look a little

bit more real.

All right great.

So there you go.

There is a fist.

So that's basically how you draw a fist.

Now another common hand pose is gonna be kind of the hand hanging down to the side of your character

and their hands will just kind of be relaxed their fingers out like this.

So let's go ahead and let's have a look at how to draw that.

So if we want to draw that it's very simple.

We can just go ahead sir by kind of drawing this trapezoid shape for the forearm and then we'll just

draw the hand coming off that.

So we're just gonna draw a simple triangle.

So we want to keep this straight line coming across here like that and we'll go ahead and draw that

triangle in and then off of this.

We can go ahead and we can sketch out the thumb.

So I'm gonna start by doing one triangle like this just coming off like that and then I'll do the next

joint of the thumb coming off like this.

All right.

So just very quickly just using some triangles we're able to draw the thumb and then we'll do the same

thing for the fingers so one finger just kind of hangs off like this right.

And we just can use a triangle to kind of make that.

And then another.

The next joint kind of hangs off like that.

We can do the same thing for the other fingers so the other fingers are gonna be mostly covered up.

We just have to kind of draw a triangle there and a triangle right here like that.

And you can see that it already starts to look like a hand.

We just have to kind of go in there and finish it off and make it look a little bit more accurate so

we can go ahead and have this line right here.

We can go ahead and

draw the arm in so we'll just kind of smooth this out a little bit more maybe add some more definition

into the muscle.

And this is gonna go across the front of the hand which is going to have a slight bump like that and

then we'll get the knuckle right there.

Now we can go ahead and kind of connect all of these triangles together at least in this first finger

to kind of make it look a lot more like a real finger

that's kind of certain to look like a class I'm going to kind of reshape the end of that finger right

there

and then this skin right here is just going to kind of wrap around right there from the index finger

into the thumb

kind of smooth the shape out right there.

Net thumb is actually looking a little shorter.

Other and extend that out just a little bit further

Nemec gotten draw this finger here

just like that and you'll notice from my fingers.

I like to keep it straight on the top then on the bottom I like to do that round shape like that

and I think this finger needs to actually be a little bit thicker so when I go ahead and kind of thinking

that up a little bit I think that'll look more accurate.

Perfect.

Now we can go ahead and add the fingernails.

It's just gonna draw in like that.

Nice and simple seam for the thumb.

You could even shade in these bad fingers if we wanted to kind of help them tell the story of that farm

a little bit more and the depth.

Perfect.

Now lastly let's go ahead and draw one more hand.

So the last hand it's going to be it's called the Renaissance hand.

And this is a very common hand that was drawn in a lot of Renaissance paintings and stuff and what it

does is it's kind of a pose like this where the two middle fingers are touching each other and other

two are angled outwards and it's just kind of a very relaxed and almost dainty type of hand pose.

So usually you'd want to use this on a female for example but this is a very common pose as well that

you'll probably want to use in some of your characters.

So let's go ahead and listen learn how to draw it.

Sharpen my pencil really quick.

So since this is going to be a female hand it's a good time to tell you about the difference between

the male and the female hand.

Obviously the male hand is going to be a little bit stocky or a little bit thicker.

But not only that but the shapes in the male hand tend to be a little bit more square and the shapes

in the female hand tend to be a little bit more round.

So for example let's go ahead and let's draw the forearm like that and make it a cylinder.

We'll go ahead and we'll draw in the basic shape or the basic form for the Palm but you'll see that

I'm going to kind of round it out

so rather than just being kind of square it's actually more of a round form like this.

So you can draw those construction lines and then you see how round it is.

All right.

Perfect.

So then based off of that we can go ahead and kind of sketch in the fingers.

So if you remember we want the pinky to kind of be angled outwards.

So this is the pinky and it's going to angle out like that and then for the pointer finger we want it

to kind of angle out in the opposite direction so a draw like this.

I'm also going to go ahead and take my measurement for how long my middle finger should be so I should

be about that long.

So extend that out there.

That's how long my middle fingers should be.

So I actually kind of want to rethink the length of some of these fingers and it should kind of curve

around like this.

All right.

So I mean go ahead.

You've raised my pinky and I'll redraw the sense that they're more like the actual length.

I need them to be

something like that for the pinky

something like that for the pointer finger.

Another thing I'd like to do is I don't just like to draw a line like this out here to help me guide

me on how long my fingers should be by I like to do the same thing for the middle knuckle.

So I'm gonna go ahead and draw one of these for the middle knuckle just like that so that I'll give

me a good idea of where that middle knuckle should be

and then for my two middle fingers you go and just kind of draw them together so they'll bend down just

a slight bit like that for that finger and I'll draw the other finger like this.

And a little overlap this index finger a little bit you can see they go together and you can see automatically

how kind of more dainty and relaxed that looks

and then the thumb is gonna be back here behind the finger.

Kind of sticking out like that.

So because it's back there we wouldn't really see it.

We're not gonna worry about drawing it.

All right.

So then we can go ahead and we can just finish drawing this out and go and extend the middle finger

a little bit more.

Maybe shorten the pointer finger a little bit.

I can go ahead and start darkening all this in.

So we kind of get that curve their curve their kind of bumps in the fingers

whom do the next finger.

So kind of a bump right there somebody there.

We'll kind of get a crease going on right there and a little bit right there as well

go to the of downwards then

and then we'll do the pointer finger.

Just kind of keeping it sort of straight

down then right here the hand will kind of go into the palm here which will kind of be a little bit

puffy like that

and then we can kind of connect this whole line together just kind of smooth it into each other like

that we could do a little bit of a bump out here just to kind of indicate that's out there where the

thumb is

we could also go ahead and kind of draw in the knuckles kind of little bumps like that

also drawn those fingernails

and actually want to bring those all the way to the end.

Realistically your fingernails have a little big gap there but it actually looks a lot better if you

just kind of bring it to the end so make sure to draw my fingernails like that

draw a line for the knuckles as well.

All right.

Great.

So there you go.

There's the renaissance in that pointer finger could actually play a little bit shorter but that's okay.

Yeah.

So there you go.

There's a couple of hand poses.

So now I'm going to give you an assignment because hands are really tricky to draw.

Even if you drew all these along with me it's gonna take a little bit more practice and there's more

hand poses than this.

So what I want you to do for this assignment is go to the resources of this lecture and download the

two pictures of hands that I have.

And then I'm going to have you just draw them like a study like this.

So you can break it down into form and you can make as detail there is a little detail as you want to

if you want you can just worry about the forms.

Typically when you do a character design you're probably not going to draw a hand in this much detail.

But I wanted to take those two pictures and draw them so that you have an understanding of those poses

and then go ahead and posting to the Q and A section of the course so that we can see your progress.

That brings us to the end of this lecture.

Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.