#Pencil drawing of a middle finger how to
#Pencil drawing of a middle finger series

I think the best way to help you see this isn’t to write more verbiage, but to suggest you spend some time carefully studying the diagram above.īefore you begin drawing your entire hand, practice seeing and drawing your own forefinger tip at slightly different angles. The single change this week is that you’ll need to see and draw different jigsaw pieces to form the pointer and the part of the palm revealed beneath it. You will approach this #8 pose exactly the same way as that one, building your puzzle from shapes of fingers, nails, and negative spaces around each.

#Pencil drawing of a middle finger how to

You may want to look back on the schematics there, including the video at the end of Part 1 that demonstrates how to create the jigsaw puzzle. In the 2-part Tutorial #7, I described right-brain drawing as building a jigsaw puzzle whose pieces all need to fit together to form the whole. Please look back at the relevant sections of the first tutorial for materials and setting up. Materials you’ll need and setting up your work When you’re drawing something this foreshortened, it’s doubly important to stand up. If you sit down, you’ll distort your perspective and end up with a distorted drawing.

It’s always important to stand up while you’re drawing so that you’re seeing your work head-on.

Close one eye while you’re drawing the foreshortened finger (the same eye the entire time) because each eye sees from a slightly different angle.

As you draw, adjust its position very slightly to keep it looking that way throughout.

Pay careful attention to how your forefinger looks when you start sketching.

To help keep your hand in the same position while you draw, the following can help: Look again at the diagram above to demonstrate this. A slight change in hand position will make you see the finger tip as a dramatically different shape. It’s keeping your hand completely still so you see it from exactly the same angle throughout your sketch. The most difficult part of drawing a dramatically foreshortened finger is actually not the drawing itself. This hand pose is identical the one in tutorial #7, with the single exception that the pointer is raised so we see its tip head-on. Right: Abstracted pointer tip shape, enlarged. Middle column: My hand with the shape of the foreshortened pointer outlined in red (the fingernail is pale yellow). Seeing the foreshortened pointer as a simple shape. The more accurately you draw these shapes, the more realistic your drawing will look. The fingernail also has very different shapes. In the right column, I’ve enlarged this shape so you can really see a few of the variety of shapes a foreshortened fingertip can appear to take on. In the middle column, I’ve traced over the shape of the pointer fingertip in red, and the fingernail in pale yellow.

#Pencil drawing of a middle finger series

In the left column is a series of photos of my hand in slightly different positions. Look at the schematic below to illustrate this (with continuing apologies for my blue smashed fingernail). Its shape is so alien to our standardized image of “finger” that we have no other choice than to abstract how we see it. In fact, it occurs to me that the much-feared foreshortened finger may actually be the best tool to help shift you to right-brained seeing. Through the magic of right-brained seeing, though, the foreshortened finger becomes fairly easy to draw because it’s seen as a shape like any other shape. The hand is often considered the most difficult of all subjects to draw, partly because we so often see the fingers from angles that conflict with our mental shorthand of them as tube-shaped. In this tutorial, we’ll take on the dreaded foreshortened finger (in this case, the pointer). Tutorial #8 hand pose with foreshortened pointer