In this listen we're going to learn about the proportions of the hand.
Fortunately the proportions are pretty straightforward and easy to learn.
So let's jump right into it.
The first thing that we're going to want to do is draw a circle to kind of define the measurements of
the Palm area and what we will Vane do is kind of measure out the length of this Palm area and extended
up that exact same length.
We want to duplicate that length and that will give us the height of the middle finger.
And now we have some great reference points for drawing the rest of the fingers effectively about one
fifth of that middle finger down and you can draw a line and it gives you the relative height of the
forefinger and the ring finger.
Now the forefinger is typically just a little bit shorter than the ring finger.
So you can extend the ring finger just a little bit above that line.
And then about a third down of the ring finger it gives us the height of the pinky finger the little
finger and we can then extend that down into the shape.
Then when we want to draw in the thumbs positioning we haul them horizontally HOV the circle and then
we can draw a circle which is sort of indicative of the joint of the thumb.
The big muscle that you can feel in your hand and what we can do is just draw out the thumb size from
that shape and bring it down.
And effectively these are the proportions.
The most important measurement is to duplicate the heart of this circle and that will give us the middle
finger height.
And really those are the proportions of the hand.
You want to really learn this of by heart get it down.
This should be the quickest proportions for you to learn.
And these are essentially also the same as the idealistic proportions.
Joe basically real world proportions for drawing hands.
The great thing with hands is that hands themselves are easy to reference because you have two of them
right in front of you.
So if you do find that you're struggling with the proportions just take a look at your hands or anytime
you're pedaling to draw hands themselves.
Let's move this to one side and take a look at some other key factors when considering drawing the hands
first of all when you contemplating the size of the hand should be on your character's typically the
hand covers the facial area.
So if you feel it you've drawn your hands too big or too small just check the hands against this facial
area here and that will give you a good idea of how big the hand should be.
Now in this particular proportion your seven hands proportions you may want to draw the hands just a
little bit smaller.
You may notice that there's a stylistic trend of small hands especially in the female characters when
you're drawing the eight heads proportions.
You can similarly use this same method to determine the size of hands if not making them a little bigger.
Keep in mind proportions are really guidelines and so it's up to you whether you want to stylus slightly
bigger hands or slightly smaller hands.
Next up is just taking a quick look at the differences when drawing male and female hands particularly
in terms of how we have the line treatment on the left.
We have female style hands on the rock.
We have male style hands.
And the key differentiating factor here is really bulk but particularly our treatment of the tips when
you're drawing female hands they tend to have a sharp point at the end of the fingers and they tend
to use longer curvy lines the sharp point is quite critical.
It's a way to imply sharp or longer fingernails that the female characters may have.
But conversely in the male hands can see that they're more stubby not as pointy and in even Boulia characters
you can make them significantly stubby the ones you can't to have really thick bulky or brutish types
of hands this is essentially hand proportions in a nutshell.
Once again learn it off by heart.
And I'll catch you guys in the next lesson.