Success in Art: Drawing Hands & Feet: Techniques for mastering realistic hands and feet in graphite, charcoal, and Conte - 50+ Professional Artist Tips and Techniques

by Ken Goldman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781633228566
Publisher:	Walter Foster Publishing
Publication date:	06/09/2020
Series:	Success in Art Series
Pages:	112
Sales rank:	638,193
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.40(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Ken Goldman is an internationally known artist, author, teacher, and art juror. A recipient of numerous awards, Goldman has exhibited widely in various group shows and solo exhibitions around the world. In California, he has shown at the Oceanside Museum of Art, USC Fisher Museum of Art, and Autry Museum of the American West. The author of many Walter Foster art instruction books, he teaches figure painting, artistic anatomy, and plein air landscape at the Athenaeum School of the Arts in La Jolla and in workshops across the country, and has served as president of the National Watercolor Society. Please visit goldmanfineart.com for more information.

Table of Contents

Introduction 4

Section I Tools & Materials 6

Drawing Tools 6

Drawing Surfaces 11

Strokes & Shading 14

Section II Anatomy of Hands & Feet 22

Anatomy of the Forearm 22

Anatomy of the Wrist & Hand 27

Anatomy of the Lower Leg 40

Anatomy of the Foot 44

Section III Drawing Techniques 52

The Picture Plane 52

Shapes 56

Perspective 58

Foreshortening 61

Seeing Values 64

Section IV Step-by-Step Drawings 66

Drawing from Life 71

Working from Photographs 80

Step-by-Step Hand Drawings 84

Step-by-Step Foot Drawings 100

Conclusion 110

About the Artist 112