This project offers simple step-by-step illustrated instructions, to guide aspiring artists through the process of outlining a proportionately correct adult human hand.

Preview lesson H02 - Proportions of a Hand

Yes this lesson helped with proportions.

OK. This one was a little hard for me. I immediately drew a second hand because I wasn't real thrilled with my first one, my second wasn't great either. Oh well, practice, practice, practice......

pretty good ive always had a problem with drawing hands i guess this could work

Did did pretty good on this lesson. Good lesson!

This was very helpful. I like the idea of the rectangle to set guidelines for the three fingers.

seems hard, but a person like me would not give up easily without practicing, so would try harder for this one.

OK, so I took forever to do this one, since I was completely bored with it, even though I cannot draw hands properly!

Anyhow, some discrepancies... I was checking my hand as I was drawing and I know Brenda said average hand but I saw some differences in mine that I couldn't ignore.
The joints do not necessarily cause curves at the edges of the fingers... sometimes it's a dent, sometimes a curve outwards at the top of the joint. It is an informative lesson, and I am no authority on art. Mine has some mistakes, for instance the ring finger is way too large, but it gave me lots of trouble to get the measurements right in the beginning. Sorry you can't see the joints but that is the light from the scanner.

1 hand down, 99 to go...

that helped a lot. Thank you:D

Loved this one and the previous lesson!

One of my dreams is to be able to draw people very well and to learn how to draw them in a correct way.

Thanks Brenda.

Its a really good lesson! Ilove how everything was broken down . I think if there was a way to improve that, I would say to add some examples of hands with bent fingers and other views . that way we could have example of other things, But I really like this lesson and i know I'll finally be able to draw hands after a short time

It was an interesting lesson, but not what i was expecting.

I've always have a lot of problems drawing hands, even if I was drawing a cartoon character. But nowadays i actually begining to enjoy the issue. I've uploaded two sketches in which I've used a pen. As you can see, I'm right-handed

This is a sketch of my hand with my mobile phone (HTC Diamond). I did it during my classes (that day weren't interesting at all).
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And this is my hand with a Staedler pencil, it has been made in 5 minutes (more or less).
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Excellent hands!