Hands.. and feet.... and shoes

[dmalex]

can anybody help me on helpful hints on hands and feet (and shoes too)... I can draw hands okay.. (as in barely live-able) but feet and shoes look horrid

[Cow Belle]

Ah, these are really hard to draw at times... Um... Look at the ones that are on you right now. From these you can get the basic shapes of them. Lines can help realist effect in some ways.

Don't try to make shoes look to complicated unless that's what you want to do. Try practicing by dumping a pile of shoes in a pile. Then eye draw.

I guess that's the best things that I can come up with... good luck. ^^;

[dmalex]

thanks

[Coruscate]

Hands and feet are the hardest parts of the body to draw given the amount of joints, cartiledge, etc. Your best bet is to find yourself some pics of skeletal hands and feet and start drawing the bones. Find easy angles to practive drawing them, and don't worry about getting too fancy with it too quick.

Focus on just the hands and feet until you can do them somewhat well, THEN worry about shoes.

[Lucky]

For shoes, google some pichers and go from there. That's what I do for any sort of clothing.


As for hands, a good way to do it is to rember. Womens hands are spoess to look abit slender, with long fingers. Men are spoess to be thicker, with sorter fingers. Don't get too cared away with the long finger/sort finger thing thow, My description of the hands of men and women are quite true. Look at any bodies hands in real life.

Uesing your own hand as a guid and scaling it to the right potportions is uesly your best bet.


As for feet... I agree there abit anoying. Not as much as hands. But still anoying. My feet are all messed up so I can't ues them for any sort refrence(Unlike with hands), or all my caraters whould has high arched feet that stick out to the side. That's why I try to advoid drawing bare feet as much as I can.


The foot is mostly a prety bassic shap thow, so a good google search of images should help you find keep the porportions right.
>.>

[Neige]

General hands tutorial: http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/hands/hands.htm

http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/hand2/hands.htm

Feet!
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/feet/foot.htm