Hand Drawings
I am slowly practicing drawing hands from photos on the American Sign Language site. I am moderately pleased with these drawings, but when I am faced with a real model, and hands are only part of the challenge, I can't draw individual fingers. Oh well!
Here are my most recent hand drawings. And then I added some drawn from photos of one of my grandchildren's hands.The sign language hands were drawn with a watercolor pencil and then brushed with water. My grand daughter's hands were drawn with a standard color pencil.
Comments
What a great idea to use ASL as models for your hand drawings. I must say you are very good at this.
xoxo
Posted by: Vicki | February 4, 2011 3:01 PM
What a great idea - and so well executed! Hands are truly the hardest part of the body to draw. We recently had a model who takes beautiful poses with her hands, but I was defeated by the complexity. Your idea is excellent - I'm going to try to practice that way as well.
Posted by: Casey | February 5, 2011 5:27 AM
You can tell the last sketches are a child's plump little hands and that's a feat in itself!
Posted by: Cathy | February 5, 2011 5:28 AM
Your hand drawings are wonderful!
Posted by: Adine | February 5, 2011 10:06 AM
It doesn't appear that you have a problem but what a nice way to spend time with your granddaughter.
Posted by: Elza Metzelaar | February 5, 2011 11:17 AM
What a great way of doing hand drawings. Excellent!
Posted by: Donn | February 5, 2011 12:23 PM
I think hands are terribly difficult, but you have done a good job. I'll have to go to the ASL website for some practice too!
Posted by: Janene Walkky | February 5, 2011 12:56 PM
Great hand studies! It is always so hard to find good pictures of hands; what a perfect place to find them!
Posted by: raena | February 5, 2011 1:41 PM
I suddenly felt that I should be doing the same too just to practice drawing hands. I don't know ASL but it sure is a terrific idea to master drawing hand gestures!
Posted by: Alex Tan | February 6, 2011 1:32 AM
and you get to learn ASL at the same time
if you don't know it already.
Posted by: magpie | February 6, 2011 5:35 PM
Very nice. I forgot about this site. I admire your practice (I've been lazy about it - and I really need to master hands!)
Posted by: Dan Kent | February 7, 2011 8:10 AM
Hands are SOOOOO hard! I'm finding a world of difference between drawing them from a photo and drawing them from life.
Doing it over and over is the only way to get better - your's look great!
Posted by: Lyric | February 18, 2011 11:27 AM