Middle finger drawing detailed4/12/2024 These are another form of measuring device, and they also help you judge whether you’re drawing angles and shapes correctly. You can use them to measure and also to judge whether you’re drawing angles and shapes accurately.Īrtists often use grids in drawing. So with anything you draw, look for the smaller sub-units that make up the whole. Each time I did this in this particular drawing, my purpose was to use these lines as measuring devices that helped me check whether I was drawing everything around the joint to the appropriate size.Īrtists always need ways of judging relative sizes of elements they’re drawing. Later in the drawing process (see Tutorial #3 video below), I will continue to draw in more of the tiny wrinkles that form each finger-joint. They help me judge the size and shape of the negative spaces I’m drawing. So at this early point, I’m drawing the finger-segment details solely as a measuring device. You want to first sketch out the basic shapes of your hand. At this early stage in the sketch, you don’t want to put in too much detail. In this demo I draw more joint details of some fingers, compared to previous, simpler hand position negative-space sketches. Using finger joints as a measuring device The pointer’s sharp bend is very close in shape to the underside of the middle finger’s bend (Image 4 above). The sharp bend of the middle finger overlaps the ring finger halfway across the ring finger’s top, straight edge (Image 3 above). For example, the sharp bend in the ring finger occurs opposite the middle of the top segment of the pinky (Image 1 above). To help you judge where you should draw each line, notice where the sharp angle of each finger “fits into” the previous finger. This sequence shows how I first drew the negative spaces between my fingers. In addition, there are small triangles between the tips of the fingers. And between forefinger and thumb is something like a teardrop shape. Between middle and pointer fingers is a more elongated shape. Between the ring and middle fingers is a small triangle. To prime your brain to switch to seeing in right-brain mode, look at the different shapes between my fingers (below). Seeing the negative space between your fingers But the switch isn’t easy for the human brain to make, as I explain here. Right-brained seeing is all-important for many artists’ drawing process. But remember, I’m trying to get you to switch the way you’re seeing to a different mode – what Betty Edwards calls right-brained mode. The goal is to create varying shapes in the spaces between your fingers. Just place your hand in a position close to this. You may not be able to replicate the shapes of the spaces exactly as I did them, because your hand is probably a different size and shape than mine. To place your own hand for this drawing, focus on the spaces between your fingers. I chose this rather odd position of my hand because it produces an interesting variation in the negative-space shapes (between the fingers) that we’ve been working with so far. Please refer back to the relevant sections of Tutorial #1 for materials you’ll need and how to set up your work space.
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