
Master the construction and illustration of hands through beginner-friendly practice, exploring poses from side views and fists, then customize with skin tones, tattoos, and Procreate for a final illustration.
Discover class resources, structure, and a hand drawing project, practice hand construction and poses, and create a final hand illustration using a color palette and five brushes.
Construct the hand by pairing an intuitive sketch with observational drawing, using basic shapes like trapeze, triangle, circle, and joints to form the palm, fingers, nails, and wrinkles.
Learn to draw hands with construction drawing, using a reference image and lines to map the wrist, fingers, nails, and wrinkles, then practice three pose-focused exercises.
draw a hand from the side using simple geometry (trapezoid, triangle, circles for the joints) and build depth with layered shadows, front-back layering, and construction sketches.
Discover how to draw a fist by constructing closed fingers from the wrist using base shapes—the trapeze, triangle, and circles—adding joints, nails, wrinkles, and shadows.
Explore how hands communicate through poses, practice a peace sign, and build a hand drawing using shapes, joints, lines, wrinkles, and shading.
Learn to make quick hand sketches using construction drawing, four poses without a reference photo, starting from a trapeze base and a thumb-focused triangle with blue and black pencils.
Explore stylized hand drawing by using a mix of straight and curved lines to keep the five fingers readable, emphasizing simplified shapes over realism, and exploring feminine or masculine styles.
Discover how to pick skin colors for hands with a warm peach base and cooler shading, and build Procreate palettes from photos or existing swatches, including freckles.
Explore a hand brush kit: catching pencil for detail, drop shadow for props and touch points, shadow brushes, shaper for building shapes, freckles, then begin painting with a sketch.
Create a square Instagram-ready canvas and adapt a preexisting sketch. Refine the hand drawing with new layers, sketching pencil, and added props before moving on to painting.
Paint hands by building shapes with a shaper, layering skin tones, and refining shadows to distinguish front and back fingers. Adjust opacity and shading, then add tattoos to finish.
Learn to add tattoos and a beaded bracelet to a hand using indigo blues, sketching on new layers with clipping masks, shadows, highlights, and pearls.
Learn to color nails, add shadows and textures with layers to create dimensional hand illustrations, including freckles, rings, and a subtle nebula magic.
Learn to draw hands by identifying basic geometric shapes, combining them as a base, exploring angles and poses, adding different styles through line changes, and choosing skin color with ease.
Welcome to the "Drawing and Illustrating Hands" class!
One of the biggest struggle of any artist is drawing hands. In this class you are going to learn to create an illustration of a hand and gain skills to draw them with confidence in your future artworks.
Read what others said about the class:
"I love any class taught by The Artmother. She makes it fun and easy to follow along. I have watched all her classes and always look forward to her new ones." Lydia Ortiz-Lugo
"All classes by the Artmother make learning art feel so natural and easy. I always feel successful at the end of her classes even if at the beginning I am unsure if I can accomplish the final project! Truly an amazing art teacher that can help anyone develop their skills :)" Emily-Quon
In this class I am going to teach you how to draw and illustrate hands in the easiest way.
Attention! This is NOT an anatomy class and and it will be definitely NOT BE BORING!
We will take advantage of the freedom of illustration and by following the rules we will create hands that fit our illustration style and we will have so much FUN with it!
We will start with learning the construction of the hand and a simple way of drawing them. Then we will practice drawing hands in different poses, like a hand from the side, a fist and with posed fingers. After several sketches we will be ready to customize the drawings to our styles. Then we will learn about skin tones.
Last but not least, we will create an illustration of a hand and as I love tattoos so much, I will show you how to add them to add even more style and uniqueness to the artwork.
I am going to use Procreate for all of this, but feel free to follow the class any way you like.
The class is a perfect fit for beginners, and anyone who feels intimidated when it comes to drawing hands.
What you need for this class is a working knowledge of the program or media you are going to work with. The class also comes with some cool resources that will ensure your success!
After finishing the class, you will be more confident when you are adding hands to your artworks and what’s more, you will have a cool illustration that you can print as a wall art as a reminder, what you CAN do!
So are you ready to draw hands with me? If yes, let’s get started!