How to draw a pencil brush in stages?

Do not write to anyone like the great artists. But you can learn to draw if you make an effort.

A lot about a person can tell his hands. It is very difficult to depict them on paper. But the problem of how to draw a hand can be solved with effort and diligence.

Anatomy for help

A complex system is the human body. Only one hand consists of several dozen elements. And in order to properly draw them, you need to know the structure of your hands. Conditionally, the brush can be divided into three main parts: wrist, pastern and fingers.

• The wrist is the closest part of the hands to the forearm. It is responsible for the movement of the brush, but all of its elements work as a unit.
• Pastern - the very wide part of the hand - the palm.
• Fingers are mobile due to phalanges. Four fingers (index, middle, ring finger and little finger) have 3 phalanges, but the thumb consists of only two phalanges.

Knowing the basics of anatomy will allow you to correctly draw the hands in stages, so that they turn out to be "talking".

What does it look like?

It will be easier to draw if during the sketch of the sketch you decide what the image object looks like - something simple, even primitive. Agree that the human hand is like a shovel, not only externally, but also functional? From this you can begin a sketch - draw a contour that looks like a shovel: the wrist - a shovel spade, and the contour of the palm with fingers - its canvas. It is difficult to immediately decide how to draw a pencil brush in stages, so it's worth starting with an elementary sketch.

The main thing - the proportions

To correctly and beautifully draw any object or detail, you must observe the proportions - the ratio of different parts with each other. This rule applies to the image of a person.

So, how to draw a hand? We begin by determining the correct proportions. The ratio of the length of the pastern and fingers is an average of 1: 1. Naturally, this ratio for different people will vary slightly, because someone has long fingers, and someone does not. But on average the proportions will be equivalent.

Depending on the length of the fingers, the contour of the palm will be either more elongated or square. Thin lines (even before you draw a hand) draw the outline of the brush according to the proportions. The thumb does not fit into the overall silhouette, it is always somewhat away from the other four "brethren".

Drawing your fingers

The fingers are flexible and flexible due to their joint structure, each of the three or two phalanges, when it comes to the thumb, is fastened together by joints and tendons. Bone phalanges, located one after another, are becoming shorter and thinner, so the fingers gradually thin out.

Ideally, each phalanx is 2/3 of the length from the previous one. These proportions are called the golden section - it is perceived by the eye as the most perfect.

Again, when drawing details, you need to make a discount on individual characteristics - not every person's hands have harmonious proportions. Also, remember that the fingers are not the same length: the longest finger - the middle, index and ring fingers are approximately the same and shorter than the middle finger, the smallest ones are the little finger and the thumb. Although large, rather, the thickest. Its length corresponds to the length of the little finger.

Lines - the basis of reliability

Before you draw a man's hand, once again analyze the parts of the hand. Remember that the contours of the palm and fingers, finding specific shapes in the drawing, are becoming more and more rounded. For example, the line connecting the fingers and palm has the shape of an arc, as well as the contour of the hand itself - the different length of the fingers makes it possible to get a semicircle when drawing fingers compressed together. The thumb is slightly unfolded in relation to the rest of the palm, its contour will not be straight, but rather round.

Minor details are important

We outlined the contour of the palm, then we begin to deal with the details. So, how to draw a hand is authentic? This is impossible without drawing small details - wrinkles, thickenings, fold lines, the contour of the nail plate on each finger. These seemingly insignificant strokes will make the drawing more realistic.

What with the fold lines on the fingers. As already mentioned, the wrist, palm and fingers consist of many elements. They allow the fingers to perform the functionality for which they are given to a person. How to draw a hand to make it look as natural as possible? With the help of drawing all the nuances. In places where the bones are joined by joints, there will necessarily be wrinkles from both the inner and outer sides of the palm. If the hand is drawn from the inside, it is necessary to draw the so-called "lines of life" - deep enough grooves in the joints of the palms.

Each finger on the end is protected by a fingernail - a rigid plate, which must be traced for realism of the image. The nail plate is one more important element in solving the problem of how to draw a hand. Nails can have different shapes - from elongated almond to almost square.

Fingers indicate the age of the person. Children's fingers are round, with uniform thinning along the entire length. The older a person becomes, the clearer the marks of time appear on the hands. For example, in older people, the thickness of the fingers will be uneven - the joints become more and more swollen with age, affect many years of work and disease. Also, the joints are very visible in lean people.

How to draw a hand in different positions?

Hands not only gradually participate in the conversation, but often themselves serve as a "language", for example, in the case of sur-communication. The palms and fingers clearly tell what the person is thinking about at the moment, what his mood is, what he does. How to draw a hand so that it truly reveals all the secrets?

Always with the image of the human body it is necessary to rely on the fundamentals of anatomy. Hands are no exception. The size of the fist, for example, is determined by the length of the bones of the pastern and fingers. And the rule of the golden section will be important in any position of the fingers, even compressed into a fist. Drawing an open palm, you need to pay special attention to drawing the lines of the pastern and slightly bent fingers.

And how to draw a hand from the side? In this case, it will be important to draw the attention of the viewer to the fact that the palm and fingers will be drawn almost straight lines from the back, but inside, both the fingers and the palm itself have pads that need to be drawn with round, smooth lines.

Step by step drawing of human hands, with a systematic transition from a sketch to the drawing of small details, however, like any other subject, will give a realistic drawing.