arms and hands series

Our next week in my life drawing class focused on arms and hands. Hands are notoriously difficult to draw, they always end up looking deformed, or stubby, or too small. We learned that to draw hands effectively you need to draw them a bit bigger than you think they should be. It's bit of illusion actually, they just look better in a drawing that way than they do life size.

Here are my attempts at drawing arms, hands, and fingers.

I didn't remember all the drawing times for these so I didn't include them, but usually around 40 minutes each. That last one was the most difficult to draw and drove me crazy the first 20 minutes!