Instruction for drawing hands

Understanding the anatomy of human hands makes it way more easy to draw them.
I am always starting with a rectangle as the basis (pic 1)  and adding the different parts of the fingers as thin ellipses (pic 2).

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Handheld ID Sketches

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Interesting use of color to frame the hammer.

 

 

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Use of tone to communicate the surfaces of the drill handle.

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Nice use of white pencil to add highlights but I think the dark outline blends too much into the cast shadow and background.

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Quick motion study with simple lines and shapes.

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I like how the color was added quickly and evenly over the whole watch and then the form was delineated with shadows and highlights.

Handheld Device

This is a quick fresh sketch of an automatic razor. This sketch has an appealing composition and is done in quick clean strokes.

razor sketch

Handheld Medical Tool

Clean Lineweight. I also like how certain drawings have the lines intentionally over-extended like Paul had shown. Very simple color scheme of dark greys and one red highlight.

Clean Lineweight. I also like how certain drawings have the lines intentionally over-extended like Paul had shown. Very simple color scheme of dark greys and one red highlight. Compositional combination of foam models and sketches is a nice perspective from the real world.

Handheld Sketches

Interesting way to show the ways a user could interact with a product

Shows the different ergonomics of a product

Interesting format, shows multiple views, details, and user interaction

 

Project 2 Inspiration

Thought this was a good review of how to build something from a box

Thought this was a good review of how to build something from a box

nice simple line work exploration

nice simple line work exploration

Beautiful use of hands and color

Beautiful use of hands and color

we saw this before, but wanted to repost

we saw this before, but wanted to repost

very nice pencil hand sketches

very nice pencil hand sketches

gestural hand drawing using sweeping line (Cintiq)

gestural hand drawing using sweeping line (Cintiq)

good example of building a hand from scratch

good example of building a hand from scratch

another earlier example, but fitting for this project 2

another earlier example, but fitting for this project 2