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By Michele Proos
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L E S S O N 3 0
YOUR HAND OF
CREATIVITY!
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T he human hand, our most expressive appendage! In this lesson we will pull together all of the Nine Fundamental Laws of Drawing that we have learned so far and apply them to this drawing. Let’s review each of the laws and how they apply to this lesson.
Take a look at the illustration of the hand below and notice the following: 1.
Foreshortening: The entire hand is tilted away from your point of view.
As the hand tilts away, it becomes more distorted from your perspective.
2. Placement: The thumb is drawn lower on the surface of the paper than the index finger; this creates the visual illusion that the thumb is closer.
The index finger is drawn higher on the surface of the paper so that it appears farther away from your perspective.
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Size: The thumb is drawn thicker and larger in relative size as compared to the other fingers, creating the illusion that it is closer.
4. Overlapping: Each finger overlaps the other to create depth in the drawing.
5. Shading: All surfaces of the hand facing away from the light position are shaded with blended value from dark to light. Blended shading creates the visual illusion of depth.
6. Shadow: The dark shadows between each finger separate and define the object.
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Contour: The wrinkle lines on the fingers and the palm wrap around the full round shape of the hand. These contour lines give the drawing volume, shape, and depth.
8. Horizon: This hand is drawn below your eye-level horizon. You can tell by the foreshortening; it is drawn so that you are looking down at it.
9. Density: To further create the illusion of depth, you could draw many hands deeper and farther away in your picture. Drawing these distant hands lighter with less detail would create the illusion of distance.
Now let’s start drawing the human hand of creativity!
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1. Take a look at the drawing at left. Now hold up your left hand in this same position.
Looking at your hand, notice how your thumb and fingers are attached to the palm of your hand. Notice how your palm is the shape of an opened foreshortened square. Draw this opened foreshortened square.
2. Take a look at your left hand in the above position again. Notice how your arm slightly tapers to your wrist. Draw this slightly tapered wrist, using size to create depth.
3. Looking at your left hand, see how your thumb bends away from your wrist in two distinct segments. Draw these two segments. Notice how each segment has a slight curve.
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4. Looking at your hand, see how
your thumb is shaped by the round
end and the contour wrinkle line
inside. Draw this round end and the
wrinkle contour line.
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5. Keep looking at your left hand. Are you
getting tired of holding it up? You can always
take a digital picture with your phone or cam-
era and draw from the screen or from a print.
However, it’s a really great exercise to draw
from the real world of light, shadows, and
true depth. Looking at your left hand, notice
how your index finger angles away from the
palm of your hand. Notice the three sections
of your index finger defined by the overlap-
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ping contour wrinkles. Draw this index finger
with these overlapping curved segments.
6. Looking at your left hand, see how the
middle finger bends down in two distinct
angles. Look at how the segments are defined
by the overlapping wrinkles. I’m hoping this
brings to mind our practice of contour lines in Lesson 15. Remember we defined the direction of the tubes with the direction of the
surface curves. We are doing exactly the same
thing here; fingers are basically small 3-D
tubes with defining curving contour lines.
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7. Look at how your ring finger is tucked
behind the other fingers. Notice how the
fingers are getting relatively smaller as
they move away from your eye. Draw this
ring finger tucked under the other fingers.
Define where the ring finger tucks into the
palm with an overlapping wrinkle.
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8. Look at your little finger. Notice
the overlapping, the tapering, the
segments, the wrinkled contour lines
defining each segment. Now, draw
the little finger.
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9. For this step, take a very close,
careful look at your left hand. Take
some time to really see how the room
light hits the top of your hand, caus-
bottom. Notice the dark nook and
cranny shadows between each finger
and how these shadows really define
the edges of each finger. Look at how
the wrinkles on the palm wrap around
your hand to give it shape and vol-
ume. Now, from these observations
and with application of the Nine Fun-
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damental Laws of Drawing, complete
this sketch of your hand.
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Lesson 30: Bonus Challenge
In your sketchbook, practice drawing your hand in three different positions. To inspire you, take a look at these student sketches of three hands. This is a perfect visual icon to bring our thirty-lesson journey to an end. Your hand of creativity! Your hand, your imagination, your sketchbook . . . enjoy your continuing expedition into this inspired world of drawing in 3-D!
Student samples
By Ann Nelson
By Michele Proos
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Iwant to thank you for sharing this time with me during these thirty lessons.
What an accomplishment you have achieved! For three years, writing this book was an intense labor of creativity. At times thrilling, at times (during the 17th edit phase) similar to a root canal procedure, but as my friend McNair Wilson (www.mcnairwilson.com) says, “It’s supposed to be hard. IT’S ART!”
I trust you have found this journey to be as rewarding as I have. Please take a few minutes to e-mail me at www.markkistler.com, and let me know your thoughts and experiences with this book. Please e-mail me scans of some of your favorite drawings (300 DPI or less). I look forward to seeing your creative work!
This is just the beginning of an amazing life-enriching journey of creative discov-ery and visual expression! I am honored that you chose to ignite your passion for drawing with me. Keep drawing every day, twenty or thirty minutes; doing so will continue to nourish your heart, mind, and soul.
Dream it! Draw it! Do it!
Mark Kistler
Houston, Texas
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Document Outline
Contents
Introduction
Lesson 1 The Sphere
Lesson 2 Overlapping Sphere
Lesson 3 Advanced-Level Spheres
Lesson 4 The Cube
Lesson 5 Hollow Cubes
Lesson 6 Stacking Tables
Lesson 7 Advanced-Level Cubes
Lesson 8 Cool Koalas
Lesson 9 The Rose
Lesson 10 The Cylinder
Lesson 11 Advanced-Level Cylinders
Lesson 12 Constructing With Cubes
Lesson 13 Advanced-Level Houses
Lesson 14 The Lily
Lesson 15 Contour Tubes
Lesson 16 The Wave
Lesson 17 Rippling Flags
Lesson 18 The Scroll
Lesson 19 Pyramids
Lesson 20 Volcanoes, Craters, and a Cup of Coffee
Lesson 21 Trees
Lesson 22 A Room in One-Point Perspective
Lesson 23 A City in One-Point Perspective
Lesson 24 A Tower in Two-Point Perspective
Lesson 25 A Castle in Two-Point Perspective
Lesson 26 A City in Two-Point Perspective
Lesson 27 Lettering in Two-Point Perspective
Lesson 28 The Human Face
Lesson 29 The Human Eye of Inspiration
Lesson 30 Your Hand of Creativity!