HOW HANDSOME

Posted by on Apr 4, 2017 | 4 Comments

Hello. I’ve been trying to improve my understanding of drawing hands by, well, drawing lots of hands. Please find below, a collection of the latest hands:

People used to smoke. They used to sing “Smoking is fun, always do it forever…”

What’s going on with these fingers? Not even I  know! Onward and upwards.

This podgy-handed man enjoying his lunch. “Just sit still would you!”

Our phones LOVE IT when we touch them! By the way, those are supposed to be fingers touching it.

More lunch being eaten. Lunch can really be a great meal.

Thank you for taking the time to look at these. I have many more squares of coloured card… The story goes that, once, my sister got a whole wad of coloured square card, for free, from a woman, at some sort of meeting. She had no use for them, and they simply thrilled me! So she gave them to me.

It is only now that I realised the true use for them, and that is to practise hands. Have a handsome time.

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4 Comments

  1. Thomas Marsh
    10th April, 2017

    Hey Ainsley,
    Fun stuff! Hands can be pretty tricky especially in foreshortened positions. If the gesture and action can be aided, I’ve found that sometimes one should not feel obligated to include every single finger. Studying the anatomy and structure, and how the fingers bend in relation to everything else is good and solid. Study the work of Albert Dorne ~ Very expressive and considered one of the best ever in regards to hands.
    Cheers!
    Thomas
    Also, I like the multi-post format in one email because one can punch in to your site quicker rather than a lot of back and forth.
    Also again, on the swimmer project, I’m digging the composition happening on Page 3, upper left, and actually the black mass above that box looks like an expressive sketch (or you could have been testing pens in that area as the rough gestural approach seems very distant from your usual lined style.) But I can see great potential there too…

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    • Ains
      11th April, 2017

      Thanks for that Thomas! I checked out Albert Dorne, you’re right. What hands!
      I don’t find it too tough to draw them when they’re in front of me, but the main goal is to fill my creative bank account so I can draw them well enough with out any source in front of me.

      Thanks for your input on the posts and swimming pics. That composition was one of my favourites. And yes, that black mass was actually me trying to get the ink flowing through my brush pen. But hey happy acccidents!

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  2. Stefan
    5th April, 2017

    Brilliant post! I love the whole ‘destiny of the cards’ paragraph. I am enjoying the evolution of your style

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    • Ains
      6th April, 2017

      Oh I’m glad! That’s very reassuring. Thank you kindly.

      Reply

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