05-10-2021, 06:09 AM
THe hand drawings look good! I like that you're deconstructing it more. I don't really know much about hand anatomy, not too familiar. you probably know more of the workings of the muscles now than i do. But I just had some thoughts on how you express forms that can easily be improved with some adjustments.
Your proportions are generally looking good, but there's a feeling of the drawings being flat shapes, rather than lines representing full forms. Of course drawing is flat shapes, but you can improve the effect of the lines by paying attention to subtle things like overlaps, and edge quality.
I've drawn black lines on three of these to show there's a big simple shape or movement within them that is flowing, uninterrupted. It helps to think of this so that you avoid individual pieces that are right on their own, but don't create that flowing shape together. On #1 you have the wrist line coming in pretty straight, overlapping the hand, but in the picture the back of the hand appears to overlap the wrist, and the contour flows in that curvy L shape. And then the thumb outlined in pink, see how that's a full form like an egg sitting in front of the index finger.
on #2 you have good instincts making the inner edge of the thumb muscle a hatched line, instead of an outline, showing that it's a soft transition. But it could be a little more subtle stilll. Also I would draw the cylinder cross sections going the other direction, since we're looking down at the wrist.
on #3, look how the whole top of the hand is a flowing line, without bumps, where yours makes the variations too prominent. The tendon flows from that line at the wrist wrist into the index finger.
So these are really subtle changes, that don't really have anything to do with anatomy, but it makes a difference how you look at things since we emphasize what we notice. And anatomy doesn't end up mattering that much if you don't express it in a way that explains it gracefully.
Your proportions are generally looking good, but there's a feeling of the drawings being flat shapes, rather than lines representing full forms. Of course drawing is flat shapes, but you can improve the effect of the lines by paying attention to subtle things like overlaps, and edge quality.
I've drawn black lines on three of these to show there's a big simple shape or movement within them that is flowing, uninterrupted. It helps to think of this so that you avoid individual pieces that are right on their own, but don't create that flowing shape together. On #1 you have the wrist line coming in pretty straight, overlapping the hand, but in the picture the back of the hand appears to overlap the wrist, and the contour flows in that curvy L shape. And then the thumb outlined in pink, see how that's a full form like an egg sitting in front of the index finger.
on #2 you have good instincts making the inner edge of the thumb muscle a hatched line, instead of an outline, showing that it's a soft transition. But it could be a little more subtle stilll. Also I would draw the cylinder cross sections going the other direction, since we're looking down at the wrist.
on #3, look how the whole top of the hand is a flowing line, without bumps, where yours makes the variations too prominent. The tendon flows from that line at the wrist wrist into the index finger.
So these are really subtle changes, that don't really have anything to do with anatomy, but it makes a difference how you look at things since we emphasize what we notice. And anatomy doesn't end up mattering that much if you don't express it in a way that explains it gracefully.