Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
How to Draw the Hands
A course by Tom Fox , Drawing Instructor and Storyboard Artist
About the video: How to Draw the Hands
Overview
“You’ve got clothed figures in your scene, just missing their hands and faces. In this lesson, you'll learn how to simplify hands and add them to your figures. ”
In this video lesson Tom Fox addresses the topic: How to Draw the Hands, which is part of the Domestika online course: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination. Learn how to translate people and places from your mind into lively scenes on a page.
Partial transcription of the video
“How to Draw Hands Now, we'll cover how to draw the hands. Let's get started. We're starting off as usual, with our clothed mannequins. We take the layer we worked on previously and we lower the opacity down. When drawing hands, as with everything, simplify them down into basic shapes, because the hands themselves are very complex. They've got a lot of soft forms on them, so they're very malleable and there's a lot of folding and stretching going on. How can we simplify them down into shapes that we can memorise and we can rotate in our minds? Something to consider when drawing hands is that...”
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Course summary for: Basic Principles of Drawing People from Imagination
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Category
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Areas
Artistic Drawing, Drawing, Figure Drawing, Fine Arts, Pencil Drawing, Sketching, Traditional illustration
Tom Fox
A course by Tom Fox
Tom Fox is a figure drawing instructor and storyboard artist who has worked in the animation industry for more than ten years. He studied zoology at university but, frustrated by the lack of practical skills involved, decided to take up drawing alongside his studies. He spent the next five years honing his craft through short courses and online resources and has worked for Universal Studios, Aardman Animations, The BBC, and Axis Animation.
As well as working as a professional storyboard artist, Tom focuses on reducing complex subjects like perspective and anatomy into an easy-to-follow process for teaching online.
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