How to Draw Dynamic Hands

[Music] hey everyone psycho yes in here and in this lesson I'm going to be teaching you how to draw hands now I've been holding off from doing this video for a long time and the reason is I was stuck between two things one is this like okay am I gonna redo my old video exactly a video and how to draw hands am I just gonna redo that with my voice because before I wasn't talking I think or am I going to teach you how I actually go about drawing hands which is very different because it doesn't really okay so I talked before something about guidelines you know you have you have the palm and then you duplicate this distance roughly to get the fingers and you have this curve and then you can get the thumb out and I don't know there's a lot more measurements but this isn't actually how I draw hands and it's bothering me for a while I am I supposed to teach the way I do things or the way that I suppose it's taught elsewhere and eventually I realized I should just teach you the way I do it and it's gonna be most likely more difficult but I hope it helps more also okay so the first thing I have to say is that drawing hands is not easy and if you think it's gonna be easy you're probably gonna be disappointed because it's not and it's the same as drawing faces it's not that easy and sometimes people will say oh I'm good at it but maybe maybe drawing faces it's easier than hands in some ways I mean I've been told it's harder but it's not easy and the first thing I recommend doing is a lot of drawing from life because this is what helped me a lot so you know you have a hand if you're right-handed use your left hand if you're left-handed use your right hand just pose it so that's what I'm doing right now and then I see like the basic pose and I don't know like I did this and this is hard obviously it's not that's what I said it's hard it's gonna be hard but doing this a lot sort of helps in terms of just getting your brain used to drawing a hand but it's not really I mean when I did this it helped a bit but it didn't help a ton and what started helping me a lot more is when I actually didn't use reference too much and I didn't use drawing from like too much I would use it to check but it was more just treating or learning certain tips I guess and I want to share those with you so the first thing I did was I stopped thinking of the hand with fingers I would instead think of it like this shape something like that not exactly you don't have to be exact you could do this and it's the same same basic thing but it's more of even something like this more of a mitten shape where the fingers are one there they're all encased in my commitment and when I draw I tend to well here's one important thing as well it's when you draw the thumb side the wrist sort of comes out like that right it's not in the like let's say this is a hand it's not gonna be like this you know it's not split evenly where there's equal space on this side on this side it's there's more space on the the wrist part of the thumb side there's more space and then the wrist sort of joins in like that so that's the first thing so let's assume you know how to draw an arm and that it's the hands that you're having trouble with okay so when I would do an arm and then I get down to the hand the first thing I do is the wrist I make a I make a stopper here I gotta go some just to indicate that we're done arm arm is done now and then the next thing is from the side you notice like okay so from the front we have this the hand connects where there's more space for the thumb right here and then for the side view the wrist sort of comes down like this and then there's like a little bump here like a step down and then you have you know your thumb and the rest of your hand so it's this like I guess these are the important things like how the wrist comes down like this and then how this thumb goes out and then once you've got that it's like okay so what's the hand doing well here let's say it's like facing us this way okay well we have more of a side view so you get the wrist coming down you know this comes like this and then you get a little step down then you go this way to the fingers and so there's one hand position and then let's say this is another hand position while this one's more let's say the palm is facing down so now we get more of this showing this you know bump towards the thumb and then on this side there's less and then it's like okay encapsulate that in this shape and this shape because it's rough but it was easier and it's quick right like you don't have to go through each individual finger because of that it just made it a lot faster to draw hands because now you know I'm not doing complicated shapes I'm just doing shapes like this that may be something like that so that was the first thing I started doing to you know get better with drawing hands is simplifying it into this one mitten like shape now the next thing is to take your mitten like shape once you get used to doing that to start breaking the fingers up into you know their own thing so the way I did that is I would create this kind of arc and then if you split it in half you know so yeah equal here and cool here and then in quarters then you roughly get the positions of the fingers now with the fingers it's different for men and women and I'm gonna go into detail a little bit of detail anyway into the differences but just for the fingers first of all the middle finger is always the longest right so we've got that now and and the pinky is always a shortest so follows this kind of arc or at least I create this kind of art then with the the pointing finger for women this finger and the ring finger are equal in length and for men the ring finger is a bit longer and the longer it is determines the testosterone I think I heard that the more like the more testosterone you have the more difference you have between this one and this one so that's a thing but anyway so that's it and that's looks like the next step is ok divide this and get your fingers and roughly it's about okay so if you flip your hand over like okay I guess this is not the nail site so let's just put some indications of things like that okay so that's the palm site and this is going to be the back of the hand side so the next thing you do or no sorry so the fingers are roughly half on the palm not the pump though opposite the top hand but you call it the reverse palm so in the reverse palm the back hand and then that back hand this finger part is about the same as this hand part so that's kind of easy and then for this it's not there's more finger than there is wait right no it's the other way around yeah there's more this thing there's more of this than there is of this and in this one they're about equal so that's how I think about it but I don't spend too much time like even with this you'll notice when I draw hands I keep fixing it and that's kind of the the thing I've been trying to figure out how to explain is how to explain that you're gonna be or at least for me I don't just create a good hand right away or rather it's been a lot of this correcting thing until it looks right like draw it until it looks right and because of that you know I practiced a bunch of hands but I'm not able to just give you a simple formula but this actually helped me a lot more than when I was looking at guidelines and stuff because when I was looking at guidelines so they tend to show you you know one hand in one position but it's like well what if I want to draw a hand in a different position maybe something like this right it's like well how does that work and I'm also come not constantly but I will reference my own hand like oh yeah how does it work what what actually goes on you know see like that Oh does it look better to have this as a curve or as a straight line no I think it looks better to have is a straight line Oh remember this is coming towards us so okay so this comes in and this comes more towards us and then you have the nail but the nail is going to be in it's going to be for short tuned as well so it's gonna be maybe something like that and this is coming around like that you know stuff like just I think it's not just practice because that would be oversimplifying it that's not just practice there's nothing like the stuff I'm telling you right now that you can learn but the most important part is the practice so yeah so once I've divided the hand into the fingers then when I create this mitten shape I can start doing stuff like this where I group a bunch of fingers together but I tend to have one doing its own thing so if I was to flesh this out it would probably be you know here's the other fingers and here's this one that it's doing at something and again you know it's really messy but that's really what helped me is do a bunch of messy ones until you can do pretty nice ones because I mean you know I've gotten to the point that if I wanted to be very careful I suppose I should be able to do a decent finger I mean I've done them before so you know I mean you can do that stuff but I didn't start with drawing it you know in detail it was more they'll just do a bunch of rough ones and do them quick and try and do different views and try and play around with it until it looks right and so okay we'll have one finger here and then we'll have the rest combined here or maybe you have a finger like all the fingers group but then the pinky comes out and I don't know they seem to be especially for for women these types of poses seem more elegant when you have you know a bunch of fingers together or sometimes it's like this where I mean an anime they do it a lot where they have the two middle fingers sort of like this and then you have maybe a hand doing something like this I mean not in this pose but this like how these two are separate and this one is two fingers combined and then something like that and then you have just like maybe this like it gets like a bit of a line here and then it fades off and you get that type of hand I guess well and real quick let me go over the lines in the hand so if you look at a palm you've got some lines and I guess it's different for people because otherwise palm readers wouldn't have a job but um I just used my own hand and when I was doing the how to draw a feet tutorial I said you know you can look at your own feet and that's the same thing basically the way I see it on my hand is like this okay I have when we do it in a different color I have a line going like this and then a line going like this and this is sort of the thumb one like I think of it there's a someone and it does this and it does this and then there's the pinky side one and it's like okay so let's say this is this finger this is this finger this is this finger and again I'm just dividing it into quadrants or quadrants fourths fourth then there's this one that comes from the pinky side and it points towards this this one right here so that's kind of the shape the two big creases I get are this including this just this and this and so I don't know it's like that that so yeah there's those and then you also get you know little creases between here you get creases all where the knuckles go that's a big thumb so again it's all about mileage with Hatton's from anyway so I'll well been about mileage I draw a bunch and when I drew stick figures are not stick figures but even figures in general and I do sketches something I tend to do is something like sort of like this anyway get my figure in and then get the arms and get hair or whatever it's like okay you've got your rough figure what I always try to remember to do and I don't always remember it but I again I try to remember is to include the hands I don't just leave your figure with hands hidden or hands not included and so I will draw like okay so first of all you got to think in terms of what is the forearm doing because the forearm determines what the hand is doing like if your palm is up for instance right let's say this is the body and this is the shoulder right if you have your hand facing palm up you get something like this where sorry I'm drawing in my weird style with the crazy proportions I'll try to minimize that as much as possible but you get something like this where the arm is outward like that like at this angle whereas when it's down use a different color it tends to be more this way right and then so this is palm side up and this is palm side down you'll notice the hand actually you know all of this is now this way that and the thing that's important is to realize that your hand doesn't just move by itself like you cannot twist your hand and only your hand moves it's not it's kind of like you know twisting your head doesn't turn without the neck being involved the hand doesn't turn without the entire forearm being involved so you have to consider them together the hand and the forearm as one thing and so this isn't a forearm tutorial so how much I should go into it but it's something to keep in mind I would say just keep that in mind that the forearm is going to determine you know what the hand is doing as well so you've got to keep these you know both in mind the forearm and the hand so now I want to talk about some hand shapes because there are certain shapes that seem to repeat and I guess I learned these as well so one of the easiest shapes and this is what I used to always give my figures is a bunch of it's a fist right and I get this kind of shape so this kind of shape kind of like the palm side down but then instead of having the fingers coming out like whatever I just do this than I do this and something like that like I don't know I don't know how to describe it but it's just sort of like that and then this is the knuckle here's another knuckle and I mean simplified it's something like this and I don't know if it's good or bad to be saying this but I sort of just do that a lot and after a while it's a little bit like on the side of the face when you do like a a lot of people learn the side of the face sort of as a formula and I kind of did to where you could do just the shape and it's like okay and then you get the mouth you get the nostril you get the side of the the eye and whatever but really you just memorize this this shape and for the the fist I sort of have that where it's like oh you just sort of memorise this shape and even if you get it a bit off god I feel really bad you're saying it but it still looks okay but anyway yeah so there's that that's like one shape that I think of other shapes are okay what if the fist is coming towards you I think of it sort of like this like there's this kind of thing you could say and then you've got your thumb here and your thumb goes to the second finger like this one and then you've got your knuckles like this but if you just do it this way it feels very boring to me like this feels like a very boring fist instead what I try and do is this like if you really tighten okay is this and I'm not if you're really tight in your fist what happens is you get more of this angle where it's more like this and you have these the the fingers sort of curve a little bit like this and it makes it just feel a lot more dynamic so I get something like this and sometimes I you know indicate this knuckle thing right here a bit more and so it's more of this shape and it feels just as I said it feels more powerfully dynamic and punchy to me this is yeah it feels more punchy so that's another shape and then you know we could have the this person punching in it all foreshortened Newton you're gonna not see a lot of the things because they're hidden behind the hand but there's a shoulder back here heads gonna be somewhere around there so that's another shape I use and then what else what else do I tend to use to use stuff like like okay so after a while my hands get a lot more flowy and instead of drawing them like does it think something like this which is not I mean it's not bad to do this but instead of doing it like this I tend to just resolve it sort of like this claw shape and I do that a lot so something like this when it's like a claw it feels like they're all claws and then maybe I'll add like oh and then the pinkies sticking out like that or these fingers are you know bending like that you know so I create this as roughly like an outline of what the hand is doing and then keep it very loose and then maybe something like this and then what I do is I add the fingers in after the fact so it's like okay now so this would have been done very lightly let me just show something more like that so this is very light right and then I can create where the fingers are the thumb or whatever and I'm trying to think of things coming forward and things going back so sometimes I add like circle joints let's say so this is doing this this fingers doing that and then these are going in more it's kind of like a holding the gun position I guess something like that but yeah so I build it that way and same with this one right so if I want it I start with this rough shape but because it's rough I'm able to better get a sense of where the other shapes would be where the fingers would because that defit not perfectly but sort of in this and it's just easier for me to get a sense of proportion when I'm doing this and again I erase a lot so I don't know again this is not a perfect tutorial it is just the way I do it and it's helping me and it's been helpful for me so sorry for all the disclaimers I'm just very I guess I'm nervous about someone's like that's not how to draw hands why are you telling them you just guess that parts or you know and there's also this this tendon that comes down and the way I think of it is I think of it connecting towards the dom so if i have this shape and I have this then I have the tendon sort of here and then the thumb side here doing that something and then the rest of the hand here but yeah I create these shapes and then break it into fingers it's pretty terrible but something like that and just remembering you know the the creases you get this one pointing this way and this one pointing this way and doing that thing okay now there is this other method because I keep switching methods depending on what I'm doing and there's this other thing I do sometimes which is okay I'll get the general handshake maybe the hands are spread or the fingers are spread apart so when I spread the fingers apart I tend to resolve them as this type of stick figure thing and then I think of the knuckle so I get the knuckles in like this like circles and then what I tend to do is this kind of I just draw in these what you'd call them sort of like sausage shapes and then I'll get the other knuckle sometimes this or sometimes I won't even include that and then I connect them like this I mean it looks stupid but it kind of works for my style and then oh and then I use like I create the webbing because you have to remember there's like webbing and fingers and that can be bigger or smaller but yeah it's this type of thing where I would create this type of back and forth thing with the this concave shape and then convex like convex concave convex shapes so to just isolate one I guess it would be something like you have this shape and it's I don't know because it's not quite like this right and it's not the triangle either it's somewhere in between these two these two to get this one and it's yeah so it's kind of like this and then it comes and then I have it go in and then I have the knuckle and then I go it have it go in like that as well and I guess you could also do it you have a line yeah Nicole Nicole Nicole and then combine them broken finger let's hide him so that's another thing I do you know if the fingers are really spread apart but now what if the fingers are coming at you well to do that the way I think of the hand is again switching it up it's different but it's sort of similar but it's more this shape kind of a I guess a bridge one called it a wedge shape and I think of it like that where this is the entire top of the hand and then I create these circles and you know you got to have them for fit evenly obviously because the fingers are equally spaced apart and then I think of like tubes coming towards us and sometimes I could use my coil technique to have like a finger coming towards and then this coming down and maybe this going down like that and then maybe this one again coming towards us but that's how I do it I use this type of rounded these knuckles like that and then you have your thumb doing it something I guess but something like that and then when it comes towards you I tend to like darken the lines so there's more contrast excite the line width so as things come towards you the lines get darker and then put in the fingernails and I guess I can talk quickly about fingernails the way I do them is well sometimes I don't but it's useful to do it and the reason why it's useful is because let's say this finger like this pinky is coming towards us well with the fingernail you can sort of describe it better how it's going and I can add the knuckles in after get this type of shape but it describes the form but let's say this is a close-up on a finger what I try and do and especially when I'm drawing women is I don't outline the figure like that I guess you could I've seen a lot of artists tend to play around like there might be shapes like this or shapes like this or shapes like this whatever but what I tend to do is I get darker around these corners and then I sort of fade it off and that's kind of how I treat fingernails maybe I'll outline a bit but it's more this case of you know it gets darker here and then there's like this I forget I know it has a word but or a name this thingy this moon Oh something about moons I know I remember that I don't remember what it's called but something Moony and yeah that's how I do it I sort of get darker here darker here fade off and then that and then on the side that's it's a let's draw a woman's fingers like a very slender finger the way I tend to do it is I might have this type of shape and it took me a while to be able to draw these elegant curves I mean I'm not saying they're super great but in this thing and then I will only suggest like this part of the suicide you and then maybe just this where the nail is coming around something like that well it's very suggestive I try and keep it really like with women's hands in general yeah you can start off with your little not little but your scrubby things maybe this hand is doing what it's doing and I tend to find what the hands are doing by doing like now when I do figures I tend to do this type of stuff like okay it's roughly doing this and then again I can flush it out after the fact but with women's hands you just have to be very careful you have to have very elegant shapes and think more about tapers and stuff so things like this type of shape there's tapered shape it's got like a very nice I like in well that one's not too elegant but something like this very very elegant shapes and less in terms of wrinkles you still can have like the big wrinkles of the hand but you're not gonna go crazy with like you're not gonna draw the nail and have a big knuckle oh and I should talk about that with drummers as well but I know you're not gonna have like all these you know indications of detail and stuff because I mean you could if you wanted the hand to look older I guess that's fine but for me I tend to not do hands like this I guess this is more like a witch's hand yeah something like that and then you know really outline all the tendons of the the palm mm-hmm so I was gonna show you this method that I learned from comic book artists I saw Alvin Lee does this I think I'm gonna forget who else does it but it's turning the hand into like reducing it into this type of shape with the knuckles sort of like a a bone shape you do this kind of thing and then I don't know like here's where the knuckles would be here's where the the nail would be so you start with this type of shape and I mean I guess I don't really do that but um I just wanted to show you it and maybe I'm doing it wrong but it's kind of that type of idea so I guess you know basically that's it draw hands a lot draw from life a lot really it's useful and this is gonna take like it took me many years to get to this point where I could draw hands but this type of thing you know where the wrist connects was super useful so pay attention to that thinking of the fingers together and then splitting them afterwards that was really helpful for me understanding you know how these wrinkles are and then just doing it a ton like a lot a lot a lot this is not easy I mean many artists and I think I'm going to be included in this even to their old age will will have difficulty drawing hands or you know you can always get better so it's something that I wouldn't beat yourself up over you know if you struggle with drawing hands you're not alone a lot of people do but at the same time the thumb is too long but it's not impossible and it's important to constantly improve to constantly get better and then at least at least you can say I draw hands the okay so yep yes that's it hope it helped oh yeah this one thing this like jeez okay never mind no I didn't hope it I mean I do hope it helped but not not not yet okay you got this part of the thumb write this and then it connects here you also have this part of the little finger and I tend to think of it but the shape and the reason why it's important is proposes where I guess it went like a side view I tend to think of that little finger part as this and when I think of it that way and I combine these shapes it helps and especially where it helps are things like this okay mmm almost forgot to do this but okay so let's have to say I have this arm and it's doing this right and here's the shoulder coming around and the hands doing this but now this hand is going in space that way okay so how do I do that well the first thing I do is I think of this shape like a box and it's going in the background and then I get the space where like the knuckles are gonna go and then I get the fingers after that so what happens is you get something like this and let's say let's give this finger region maybe this finger is tucked under like that okay so it goes like that now this is very important because this is able you're able to get things in 3d right but the heaven is bent and it's going this way but you have to consider the the sides of the hand like the thumb side or the pinky side and once you do it a lot and practice you can kind of get faster with it getting shapes like this pretty pretty easily but yeah so that's kind of the opposite of the the other view where you have the fingers doing this in this shape you know coming at you instead of that where they're coming at you in another trick for this is to draw the lines and make an arc like that and this shows where the fingers are going and then draw them in like that and then sort of connect them back so if this is one view then this is sort of the other view and see here like this part you have to think of it like a box or uh yeah rectangular box so this is like this and it comes out like this and then you have the wrist part which is part of its own box shaped like this alright so that's doing that type of thing and then you add thumb and the fingers and everything so yeah I guess that's the that's the last thing that I wanted to cover and I hope this helped and thanks for watching

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Length: 37min 45sec (2265 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 02 2015