Video tutorial: Sketching handsIt is often beneficial to sketch up a quick idea or two of how a person interacts with a given product. Drawing in a human hand(s) to help present scale and orientation will allow you to quickly communicate exactly how the product lives in the human world. This video tutorial seeks to shed some light on how to go about sketching hands.
Tags: Advanced, Gesture Sketching, John Muhlenkamp, Quick Tip, Sketch Tips, Sketchbook Pro, Tutorial, Video, Wacom
I would love to see more videos like this. Showing context is difficult for many of us ID students because most of us are never taught how to draw people. This is unfortunate, because we are in the business of designing products for people to use.
Right now I am working on drawing walking canes for Baby Boomers. It is really difficult to properly visualize this type of product without drawing hands grasping handles and showing people in various situations.
Thank you for setting up this site, I can’t stop showing it to all my classmates and professors.
Jeff- thanks for your good feedback. Glad you like the site and keep sharing it with others!
hello,
Great Web site, thx for all the tuts, well Done
so i want to know what is the soft used to draw in this tutorial ?
i like, the options, and the navigations….
could U tell me please,
thx
Cedric- this is Autodesk’s Sketchbook Pro for the Mac.
thx for the answer, i’ll try to have it,
it seems to be very great, and useful
have a nice day
Great rapid viz!
This type of fundamental for various presentation info. is really helpful.
Its often hard to remember EVERYTHING…
My favorite comment was your stress upon not tracing the initial lines… I had not done this before and it REALLy brings the messy life-ness back to my sketches… I had dont this before, but not EVERY time… so being contious about it… really helps to keep the sketch alive and moving around…
Thanks Jeff!
Additionally,
Id love to see a similar demo with some EYEWEAR… Nike… Oakley… etc… eyewear is so dificult.. im not sure why..
mybe its the thinness of the product… Id love to see an eyewear demo and then a continuation of a presentation with Hands – as you have done here..
Additionally, an eyewear demo with some Photoshop would be pretty sweet… bringing it to the next level..
thanks!