Drawing Hands And Feet A Practical Guide

Hands & Feet. This comprehensive course guides the artist through each stage of creating accurate portraits of hands and feet, both at rest and in motion. Building on the anatomy of the subject, Eddie looks at the drawing materials, mastering proportion, perspective, light and shade, with tips and advice along the way and exercises and projects for you to put what you've learnt into practice. * Leisure Painter * Drawing Hands & Feet is a very interesting book, showing the structure of the bony skeleton of both plus muscle arrangement. Plenty of drawings of all types of hands and feet, some very good tips for when you are drawing. I have always found this a difficult subject to paint or draw, but I'm sure, with the help of this book I will now be able to accomplish a far better picture. -- Trevor Gilbert * Customer review * This book is an answer to getting hands and feet looking realistic. Beginning with description of tools it moves on to the essential basics of the internal parts of hands and feet. It progresses quickly to drawing and getting the proportions and perspective correct. The author makes the subject easy enough for most to follow and certainly has improved my efforts. Unlike other books I have seen, this one also includes things such as adornments and gesturing. Definitely a good buy. -- Marion Mashiter * Customer review * There's more, of course, to figure drawing than just the extremities, but hands and feet are notoriously difficult to get right and errors here can mar an otherwise successful piece of work. Eddie's method is to proceed by way of examples and exercises, with plenty of diagrams and blocking outlines along the way. Instead of contemplating what appears to be a mountain - the sheer complexity of digitation, for instance - you start with simple shapes and work from there. Breaking the problem down to a series of what become much simpler stages suddenly makes it manageable and the possibility of understanding it more reasonable. A lot of