Homework - Hands/Feet

This week's assignment was to draw hands/feet in some sort of a story. Mine was very different and abstract. As most of my work tends to be. It started out as trying to work on a logo for a friend's band. But since this was my first crack at drawing hands, after about 3 hours, I had to give up. It just wasn't working. I needed to get the mechanics down of shape first. Then I can revisit that. So after all that time, I was wondering what to do. I have to interject a bit of a story here. I'm fascinated by hands. I think hands, just as much as the eyes, really tell a lot about a person and what they've been through in their lives. Funny thing, growing up, I always wondered who my hands looked more like. My biological mother's or my biological father's. that question still isn't answered, but one day will be.

So I looked at my own hand of which I'm tremendously fascinated. I have these very old, very deep lines in my hands. And when I was young, they weren't AS pronounced, but as I've gotten older and all the things my poor body has been through, they are getting deeper by the day. And they just tell an interesting story. So I drew my own hand.

Yes, my fingers are a bit crooked in this. But the perspective is a little off because of the way I cropped it. I like smaller files. Anyway, this took at LEAST 6 hours to do. Getting the shapes and then the lines in my hand just right. My hands look a lot older than my years and they really are this lined. The shadows of the other fingers came out great. My professor really liked the detail and the emotion in the hand. so I was happy with it.