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Creative Bloq
Creative Bloq
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Jake Spicer

FORGOTTEN HISTORY: How to use negative space to accurately draw hands - The Untold Story

Draw hands; sketches of hands.

To nail hand drawings, stop overcomplicating the anatomy and focus on the core shapes and movement. By breaking hands down into simple forms, you'll be able to sketch them confidently – whether from a model or straight from your imagination. While hands are infamous for being tricky, a few smart sketching techniques can make all the difference.

In this tutorial you can discover how to use negative space to make your proportions as accurate as possible. This is a technique that enables you to find the balance and accurate proportions in an object, like a hand, that you're drawing. If you find this tutorial helpful then you'll like Kate Oleska's gesture drawing tutorial and Brynn Metheney's guide to simplifying hand drawing.

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