Simplifying Hand Sculptures

To create quick hand gesture studies in clay it's a good idea to use the "middles, pinky, & thumb" technique. Start by sculpting the forearm and the middle three fingers as a simplified, stretched teardrop shape. Next, add the thumb and pinky using basic shapes—a flattened drumstick for the thumb and a bowling pin for the pinky. Finally, block out the fingers, indicating knuckles and padding. Aim for simplicity and complete each study in about 20-30 minutes.

CHAPTERS:

00:00 - Intro
00:21 - Pink, Middles, & Thumb Method
01:39 - Step 1 - Middles
02:29 - Step 2 - Pinky & Thumb
03:40 - Step 3 - Fingers
04:43 - Step 4 - Details
05:11 - Assignment
06:18 - Outro

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COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This portrait sculpting course will dive deep into the techniques and principles that will help you master the portrait. Portrait sculpting is one of the most difficult challenges that visual artists can take on but if you follow the lessons and do the corresponding assignments you'll be surprised how fast you will improve.

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Script & editing - Andrew Joseph Keith

[graefx]

I never had such a formal explanation of how to form a hand but thats basically how Ive always drawn hands. I had to have picked it up from somewhere, probably subconsciously noticing other artists used that same approach.

[LuuckFire]

you have NO idea of how much i wanna crack your sculpture course.

[haizuru]

MPT aka Peng flipper method. We have the technology.