TUTORIAL // sketching hands & feet
Added 2021-05-11 09:17:19 +0000 UTCHere it is: this month’s tutorial! It’s on sketching hands and feet, and talks mostly about how I break them down into basic shapes and how I convey foreshortening. I’m pretty lazy about getting the details right, as long as the shape and gesture are working! If you want to practice drawing hands and feet, I really recommend the Adorkastock reference packs that she put together a while back and which I used in this tutorial as wel!
Here’s the feet pack: https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/50-Foot-Challenge-Pack-93-Foot-References-348837258
And here’s the hand pack: https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/50-Hand-Challenge-Pack-244-Hand-References-348847368
Just click on the little ‘download’ icon below the preview image to get the zip file with all the photos!
Let me know if you have any questions after watching this tutorial. This one was quite rough so if there’s a lot of questions, I can take them into a future tutorial about detailing, painting and rendering hands & feet. For now, I hope you enjoy this one!
Comments
The note on wrist angle and ensuring the groundedness of the feet were good notes. Thanks!
mangoburn
2023-06-16 01:10:11 +0000 UTCwhen in doubty one finger outy iykyk. great tutorial!
Cole Burns
2023-04-08 16:09:24 +0000 UTCi have had it on my list for a while to make one about drawing different body types! if there's any other specific topics you'd like to see, let me know!
Loish
2022-07-25 07:21:25 +0000 UTCThis was a GREAT Tutorial, Loish. Any plans on doing more Tutorials focusing on the Human Anatomy? Cheeers!
Jean Claude de La Ronde
2022-07-24 13:34:38 +0000 UTCthank you so much for the support!!
Loish
2021-06-08 08:39:02 +0000 UTCThis is my first video here. Wow. Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for spending some time to share your approach with us 🙌🏼
Jacq-O
2021-06-07 17:52:11 +0000 UTCI'm glad you enjoy it stephen!
Loish
2021-05-31 08:30:20 +0000 UTCThank you so much for all of your teaching and references you add with them. You have a gift and much patience
Stephen Scowcroft
2021-05-31 00:54:52 +0000 UTChaha no worries, i won't have time to introduce any new tiers anytime soon so for now, this is it :)
Loish
2021-05-25 08:17:23 +0000 UTCBravo!! Such an amazing tutorial. I'm gonna be sad when you have higher tiers I can't afford TT___TT I want all the content! lol. Thank you for this hun!! <3 <3
Niquey
2021-05-24 16:22:39 +0000 UTCMy favorite things about your paintings are the hands and the gesture/intention that they convey! This was so helpful to be able to hear your breakdown of how you approach hands and feet!
Jac
2021-05-18 22:36:28 +0000 UTCI would be soooo happy to see one from you !
Rosa J
2021-05-17 14:07:48 +0000 UTCyesss I had that in my poll options for a while but it wasn't a very popular choice! but I've been wanting to do a skintone tutorial for a while!
Loish
2021-05-17 07:14:20 +0000 UTCso glad you like it holly!
Loish
2021-05-17 07:13:53 +0000 UTChey steven! unfortunately I don't think that's possible. adorkastock has most of their stock on deviantart currently. sorry about that :(
Loish
2021-05-17 07:13:19 +0000 UTChey scott! that's a tough one to talk about because indeed, it's so subjective. maybe i can do a kind of loose-format talk about it sometime, i don't know if i could do a tutorial on it. i will think about it, because it's a really interesting topic!
Loish
2021-05-17 07:08:48 +0000 UTCHI Loish, amazing as always. I have a question, could you ever talk about "appeal." This is a part I struggle with tremendously is how to make something look so appealing. I don't mind putting in the hard work to learn appeal, it's what to work on and how to get there (and yes I know, "appeal" is very subjective)
Scott Thigpen
2021-05-15 23:42:00 +0000 UTCYay!
NadiaMakesSomeArt
2021-05-15 22:37:34 +0000 UTCHey Loish, Is there a way to download them without having an account registered on DA? It's asking me to sign up/sign in everytime I want to download the resources. Thanks
Steven Clarke
2021-05-15 20:07:31 +0000 UTCThis was so helpful! Especially for the ways you broke the feet into some major shapes. On my own, i was able visualize toes, and then the rest of the foot was a helpless blob that I just didn’t understand. 😆 I can’t wait to practice more gestural versions of hands and feet.
Holly Westlund
2021-05-15 02:39:04 +0000 UTCThank you so much, this was super helpful!! Are you considering doing a tutorial on how you paint skin in the future? (sorry if this has already been suggested!) The skin always brings so much life into your paintings, and as someone who loves painting skin myself, I'd so love to see how you do it in detail!
Rosa J
2021-05-14 15:47:36 +0000 UTCYeah, same here Nicole :D But also I think this is the best way to support you Lois. In the paid way and also the mental way :)
Kirstie Elissa Engel
2021-05-13 14:33:52 +0000 UTCso glad you like it! thank you so much nicole!
Loish
2021-05-13 08:18:58 +0000 UTCYou’re a very talented teacher! I thought I’d join your patreon just for a month or so but I keep sticking around for the excellent content 🙂. Your tutorials are excellent !
Nicole May
2021-05-12 15:57:57 +0000 UTCthanks for the support over so many years!
Loish
2021-05-12 10:13:02 +0000 UTCso glad you like it brittany! thanks for your support!
Loish
2021-05-12 10:12:30 +0000 UTCthanks so much greg! i do think it might be interesting to bundle these in the future somehow. i'm glad you enjoy the tutorials :)
Loish
2021-05-12 10:12:16 +0000 UTCglad you found it helpful!
Loish
2021-05-12 10:11:52 +0000 UTCthey really are haha. i'm glad you found this helpful!
Loish
2021-05-12 10:11:41 +0000 UTCThanks for this lois. The shape cylinder idea here looks really helpful. I remember in the before covid times going to life drawing classes. I used to spend so much time just staring at the models hands and feet in frustration. They are so so tricky!
Jill Anderson
2021-05-12 08:22:30 +0000 UTCThanks Loish fir this very helpful tutorial ! Now I'll know where to focus when I'll draw hands and feet !
Wh0
2021-05-12 06:57:31 +0000 UTCI agree with the comment above. I hope you realize you are as fine a teacher as your are an artist. Maybe someday you could put videos like these in an anthology. "Best of Loish". I'd buy the first copy.
Greg Schultz
2021-05-12 05:40:24 +0000 UTCSo stoked about this tutorial! You are a great teacher! Thank you for the hard work you constantly out into your Patreon
Brittany Small
2021-05-12 04:55:42 +0000 UTCThank you Loish!! This really helped me with hands and feet and made it much simpler
Adriana Amador
2021-05-12 04:48:30 +0000 UTCOmg you rock!!
Violet
2021-05-11 15:44:16 +0000 UTCyou are the best Lois, I follow your work since Deviantart more than 15 years ago. Thank you for being there for us :)
Armizo
2021-05-11 13:10:50 +0000 UTCVery nice and useful tutorial. Thank you Loish.
Martin Silz
2021-05-11 11:23:44 +0000 UTC
