Hands

To draw hands, or really any part of the human body it helps to understand the underlying structure - or the bones and muscles. In fact, for centuries many artists have been drawing not only from live models, but from corpses!

Leonardo DaVinci used to secretly dissect corpses in the basement of hospitals throughout Italy. He made hundreds of anatomical drawings studying the human body.

Use the information below to draw a human hand. Your drawing will be graded on the following:

• Correct proportion of the phalanges, metacarpals, and carpals

• Basic shading

• Effort