Drawing Hands and Feet: Techniques for Mastering Realistic Hands and Feet in Graphite, Charcoal, and Conte

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Ready to take your drawing skills to the next level? Success in Art: Drawing Hands & Feet allows beginning artists to master the challenges of rendering realistic hands and feet. Drawing realistic hands and feet in graphite pencil is a challenging subject for most beginners. With Drawing Hands & Feet, follow along as you study the common forms of the fingers and toes and learn to create and meld basic shapes to build realistic final art. Discover how light and shadow play an important part in creating muscle definition, expression, and realism. Understand the effect of perspective when choosing and rendering a pose. Drawing Hands & Feet encourages artists to master the individual parts of the form—the pose, structure, values, and shading—before approaching the composition as a whole. More than a basic step-by-step drawing guide, the Success in Art series focuses on subject matter that is often challenging for artists, regardless of skill level. From highly foundational art concepts, such as proportion and perspective, light and shadow, and composition to mastering textures and the human figure, Success in Art covers difficult subject matter in an approachable way using easy-to-grasp techniques and step-by-step exercises. Cover Title Copyright Table of Contents Introduction Section I: Tools & Materials Drawing Tools Drawing Surfaces Strokes & Shading Section II: Anatomy of Hands & Feet Anatomy of the Forearm Anatomy of the Wrist & Hand Anatomy of the Lower Leg Anatomy of the Foot Section III: Drawing Techniques The Picture Plane Shapes Perspective Foreshortening Seeing Values Section IV: Step-by-Step Drawings Drawing from Life Working from Photographs Step-by-Step Hand Drawings Step-by-Step Foot Drawings Conclusion About the Artist