portraits-hands are like the face
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Hands
Glenn Hirsch
Nicolas de Largillierre, 1715
Botticelli
Nelly Nassif
Bing Zhang
Bing Zhang
Peggy Millar
Cynthia Kanios
the hand is as big as the face
right size intentionally too small
Janet Benjamin
Carolyn Wales
hands appear bigger as they get closer
Gene Faktorovich
John Reamer
first break it down into geometric shapes
start with a
simplified
“paddle”
shape
August Macke
Find the rectangle
exaggerate the wrist
exaggerate the geometry of the fingers
Cynthia Kanios (detail)Steve Chapman (detail)
Emma Mankin
foreshortening
fingers like “hoses” coming toward you
Michelangelo
Practice!
Leonardo da Vinci