Drawing Fundamentals – How to Draw a Hand Holding Objects

Are you looking to expand your drawing skills? In this class, you’ll learn about drawing hands, considering space, proportions, shapes, and values. From learning about the parts of the hand to applying them to different positions, this project will help you start your art journey by building drawing fundamentals. By the end of this course, you’ll have drawn the fundamentals of a hand and shaded two realistic hands that you can reference for future projects!

By the end of this course, you will know how to:

• Visually separate parts of the hand, including the palm, finger, and thumb shapes
• Consider the proportion about the parts of the hand
• Practice the use of light lines & gentle pencil pressure
• Build value through gentle layers of pencil or colored pencil
• Create working from large to small details

Drawing Materials:

• Demonstrations are drawn traditionally using pencil and colored pencil techniques, but you may use the medium of choice, including digital.