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Core skills HOW TO DRAW ACCURATE HANDS

A trio of talented artists teach you their methods for crafting one of the trickiest, but most expressive parts of the human anatomy
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To draw hands accurately, you need to look past the complexity of their anatomy and recognise simple rules that will help you draw from a model, or even your own imagination. Although they’re notoriously tricky to get right, there are some sketching tips and tricks you can use to get them just right.

To help, we’ve got three tutorials from artists Kate Oleska, Brynn Metheney and Jake Spicer. First, Kate breaks down the process for creating a quick sketch into four simple steps. She starts by exploring the structure of the hand, and then looks at how to translate this into a drawing.

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