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Drawing Hands Using Shape

This document provides instructions for drawing a hand by breaking it down into basic shapes. It recommends viewing the palm as a square and the fingers and thumb as cylinders or rectangles. The instructions guide the reader to first draw the square palm and then add the finger and thumb cylinders coming off of the palm, finishing with the rectangular wrist. It also notes that details like joints and creases can then be added to complete the accurate shape-based hand drawing.

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Drawing Hands Using Shape

This document provides instructions for drawing a hand by breaking it down into basic shapes. It recommends viewing the palm as a square and the fingers and thumb as cylinders or rectangles. The instructions guide the reader to first draw the square palm and then add the finger and thumb cylinders coming off of the palm, finishing with the rectangular wrist. It also notes that details like joints and creases can then be added to complete the accurate shape-based hand drawing.

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Drawing hands using shape

Everyone look at the palm of your hand and imagine how easily it would be to draw if you could break your hand up into shapes.
Observe that your fingers and thumb are cylinders divided into moving sections. The shape of the palm can be drawn as a square
and a rectangle for the wrist. Study your hand, start by lightly drawing the shapes as shown below. Begin with the square for the
palm, then build the fingers and thumb off the square and lastly, the rectangle for the wrist below. Draw your hand correctly using
the shapes as a guide.
Once the outline of your hand is accurately Finally take inspiration from this artists work.
drawn observe and draw the creases at the He has used the shapes and lines to break the hand up
joints of the fingers and thumb and on the into colours. Be creative when using colour, use different
palm and wrist where there is movement tones or lighter tones in the back ground. The artist’s hand
is a different pose to yours so use your imagination.

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