How to Draw Hands Workshop

This highly detailed and extensive workshop features everything you need to know to draw refined and realistic hands. Together we will start off with basic palm and finger structure utilizing correct proportions, then move onto how tendons affect movement. Next we'll incorporate muscle, skin, and fingernails to round out our drawings and finally learn about shading to bring a real depth and realism to our works. 

You also have the option to get personal feedback through email from me three times over the course of this workshop for that extra boost in conquering this challenging subject matter. Woo Hoo!

Supplies:

White Conte Pencil: https://bit.ly/2DbnqQ5

2B Pencil: https://bit.ly/3jHhDml

4B Pencil: https://bit.ly/39woBGg

4B Woodless Pencil: https://bit.ly/32VNolv

9x12 White Sketchbook: https://bit.ly/39C3wdu

9x12 Toned Grey Sketchbook: https://bit.ly/3hDUrDH

Kneaded Eraser: https://bit.ly/2VC4qBB

Map Eraser: https://bit.ly/2wgzoop

Mono Zero Eraser: https://bit.ly/3885Fej

*Any supplies purchased through my special links helps to support my YouTube channel at no extra cost to you, so thank you!

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7.26.2020

'Hand Workshop' Progress

I’m excited to share a little progress on probably the most detailed workshop I’ve created to date! This is an super thorough examinations of how the hand is structured, how tendons affect movement, how to draw details like wrinkles and fingernails, and then finally how to shade and render it.

I’ll have around a dozen step-by-step drawing examples of the entire process as well as lots of copyright free photographs that anyone can use for any project.

So make sure you stick around and stay tuned because I’m not sure when exactly this will be published, but I’m hoping in three weeks or less! I’ll have the first part on my YouTube channel and the rest will be available for download on my website or to experience on Skillshare.

Can’t wait to drop some real knowledge on you!

7.9.2020

3D Oil Painting Demo :: Orange Daggers

This latest 3D oil painting features plenty of my favorite plant life media: ferns! There are four different kinds in this work collected during my hikes in O'ahu and while strolling around the grounds at my Artist Residency at the Highlands Art League in Florida. In order to use plants in my work I first press and dry them for at least a month, and I'm always delighted when they keep their color for so long.

The 'orange' part of the 'Orange Daggers' is a certain type of bird of paradise flower that I saw abundantly on da 'aina, however this one that I photographed and painted I actually found on top of a yard waste refuse pile while I was on a morning run. I love the way their super solid petals cup up to form teeny ecosystems of collected rainwater and delicate insects when found in their natural environments.

Last but certainly not least, there is one beautiful and stately French preying mantis surveying the scene. And how do I know this particular preying mantis is French? Well because he unfortunately expired in my apartment while I was staying in Argenton-Chateau for an intensive figure painting atelier in 2015. This lil guy was collected three years before I even began creating my 3D paintings! I'm not sure what I was thinking at the time, I must have just known a perfect specimen such as this would play into my art one day.

Yes! This piece is available for purchase here

3.7.2020

'Pinch Me' Oil Painting Demo + Tips

Another 3D oil painting coming atcha! Creating 'Pinch Me' was so much fun! Watching each layer rise with the addition of the bulbs gave this hand painting such a dreamlike and multi- dimensional feel, not to mention the initial sunlight dappling on the form.

Painting unusual shadow shapes can definitely play with your eyes and mind a little bit, but trusting your initial drawing and your source image will help you stay on track when attempting such an odd task :)

Hope you learn a lot from the accompanying tips + techniques! Here are the other videos I mention:

Painting Caucasian Skin Tone:

https://youtu.be/XfVn2X2NpN8

Painting Melanin Rich Skin Tones:

https://youtu.be/rVQIncWs6eY

Making Painting Panels:

https://youtu.be/0XozulwC3fM

Making Shallow Shadowbox Frames (perfect for resin pouring!)

https://youtu.be/XJcIFE__tlU

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originally published January 10, 2019