![]() Figure DrawingHow to Draw Hands
By Oliver Senior |
How to Draw Hands
This is a wonderfully illustrated little instruction book about drawing the hand. The text is clear and you can see by the examples, so are the illustrations. |
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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From Chapter 1.
Make them big enough. The front of my hand from the tip of the middle finger to the first line across the wrist, is eight inches long. The back, because its form appears to include or overlap more of the wrist, is eight and a half inches long. My head from crown to point of chin,, measured in a line parallel to the facial angle, is nine inches long. In contact with my face the front of my hand covers the whole of its length from point of chin to top of forehead. Try yours. Your first care in drawing hands associated with the head or figure should be to make them, proportionately, the right size; and, with beginners, this instruction invariably resolves itself into exhortations to make them bigger. Regarding them, I must suppose, as an insignificant detail, the novice always makes the hands (and feet) of his figure drawing much too small; or even neglects them altogether. This is not a book about drawing the figure; but instruction in drawing hands cannot be better introduced than by a repetition of the most useful four words of advice ever given to me* as a student of figure drawing: Keep your drawing back. Cram, that is, more observation, comparison, calculation, response, into each stage, even into each line of it. Let it include indications of hands (and feet) from the first general layout of pose and proportion; and let these march together with the rest of the drawing through every stage of its progress to completion. Don't leave them to be stuck on at the end. So shall your attention be directed to first things first in drawing the hand; to the manner of its attachment to the forearm; to its relative size; to the lines expressive of its action in conjunction with the action of the figure; finally, to its own characteristic formation in detail. |
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If ... the artist finds himself constrained, by any consideration of expression, treatment or style, or by his deference to the peculiar nature and limitations of his tools and materials, to adopt or invent a convention or a symbol and to substitute the semblance of a bunch of bananas or a bent fork for a representation of the human hand, then the particular problem dealt with in this book does not arise.
Oliver Senior
How to Draw Hands
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