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TUTORIAL // sketching hands & feet (Patreon)

Published:
2021-05-11 09:17:19
Edited:
2024-08-07 10:24:26
Imported:
2026-06
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Here it is: this month’s tutorial! It’s on sketching hands and feet, and talks mostly about how I break them down into basic shapes and how I convey foreshortening. I’m pretty lazy about getting the details right, as long as the shape and gesture are working! If you want to practice drawing hands and feet, I really recommend the Adorkastock reference packs that she put together a while back and which I used in this tutorial as wel!

Here’s the feet pack: https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/50-Foot-Challenge-Pack-93-Foot-References-348837258

And here’s the hand pack: https://www.deviantart.com/adorkastock/art/50-Hand-Challenge-Pack-244-Hand-References-348847368

Just click on the little ‘download’ icon below the preview image to get the zip file with all the photos!

Let me know if you have any questions after watching this tutorial. This one was quite rough so if there’s a lot of questions, I can take them into a future tutorial about detailing, painting and rendering hands & feet. For now, I hope you enjoy this one!

Comments

Cole Burns

when in doubty one finger outy iykyk. great tutorial!

mangoburn

The note on wrist angle and ensuring the groundedness of the feet were good notes. Thanks!

Bree

Thank you so much for making these tutorials. I've struggled with hands for years and I could never figure out how to connect drawing them in a way my brain understands. The mitten analogy really helped put it in perspective and things have been clicking from there.

Martin Silz

Very nice and useful tutorial. Thank you Loish.

Armizo

you are the best Lois, I follow your work since Deviantart more than 15 years ago. Thank you for being there for us :)

Violet

Omg you rock!!

Adriana Amador

Thank you Loish!! This really helped me with hands and feet and made it much simpler

Brittany Small

So stoked about this tutorial! You are a great teacher! Thank you for the hard work you constantly out into your Patreon

Greg Schultz

I agree with the comment above. I hope you realize you are as fine a teacher as your are an artist. Maybe someday you could put videos like these in an anthology. "Best of Loish". I'd buy the first copy.

Wh0

Thanks Loish fir this very helpful tutorial ! Now I'll know where to focus when I'll draw hands and feet !

Jill Anderson

Thanks for this lois. The shape cylinder idea here looks really helpful. I remember in the before covid times going to life drawing classes. I used to spend so much time just staring at the models hands and feet in frustration. They are so so tricky!

Loish
>>59656816

thanks so much greg! i do think it might be interesting to bundle these in the future somehow. i'm glad you enjoy the tutorials :)

Nicole May

You’re a very talented teacher! I thought I’d join your patreon just for a month or so but I keep sticking around for the excellent content 🙂. Your tutorials are excellent !

Kirstie Elissa Engel
>>59681474

Yeah, same here Nicole :D But also I think this is the best way to support you Lois. In the paid way and also the mental way :)

Rosa J

Thank you so much, this was super helpful!! Are you considering doing a tutorial on how you paint skin in the future? (sorry if this has already been suggested!) The skin always brings so much life into your paintings, and as someone who loves painting skin myself, I'd so love to see how you do it in detail!

Holly

This was so helpful! Especially for the ways you broke the feet into some major shapes. On my own, i was able visualize toes, and then the rest of the foot was a helpless blob that I just didn’t understand. 😆 I can’t wait to practice more gestural versions of hands and feet.

Steven Clarke

Hey Loish, Is there a way to download them without having an account registered on DA? It's asking me to sign up/sign in everytime I want to download the resources. Thanks

Scott Thigpen

HI Loish, amazing as always. I have a question, could you ever talk about "appeal." This is a part I struggle with tremendously is how to make something look so appealing. I don't mind putting in the hard work to learn appeal, it's what to work on and how to get there (and yes I know, "appeal" is very subjective)

Loish
>>59911333

hey scott! that's a tough one to talk about because indeed, it's so subjective. maybe i can do a kind of loose-format talk about it sometime, i don't know if i could do a tutorial on it. i will think about it, because it's a really interesting topic!

Loish
>>59900929

hey steven! unfortunately I don't think that's possible. adorkastock has most of their stock on deviantart currently. sorry about that :(

Loish
>>59823434

yesss I had that in my poll options for a while but it wasn't a very popular choice! but I've been wanting to do a skintone tutorial for a while!

Jac

My favorite things about your paintings are the hands and the gesture/intention that they convey! This was so helpful to be able to hear your breakdown of how you approach hands and feet!

Niquey

Bravo!! Such an amazing tutorial. I'm gonna be sad when you have higher tiers I can't afford TT___TT I want all the content! lol. Thank you for this hun!! <3 <3

Loish
>>60478871

haha no worries, i won't have time to introduce any new tiers anytime soon so for now, this is it :)

Stephen Scowcroft

Thank you so much for all of your teaching and references you add with them. You have a gift and much patience

Jacq-O

This is my first video here. Wow. Amazing tutorial! Thank you so much for spending some time to share your approach with us 🙌🏼

Jean Claude de La Ronde

This was a GREAT Tutorial, Loish. Any plans on doing more Tutorials focusing on the Human Anatomy? Cheeers!

Loish
>>88219028

i have had it on my list for a while to make one about drawing different body types! if there's any other specific topics you'd like to see, let me know!