There is a term you may have heard throughout the art community and maybe even math. There is a thing known as 3d dimension or 3d form. This is a major foundation within art and it is not so simple as drawing a cube but it becomes more of perspective and also understanding how to break things down. This differs from 2d shapes because nothing in real life is a 2d shape and what gives things life is 3d forms in which objects are in our everyday life.
So you might begin to question how a form is directly applied to art and why it is so important. Sure, people talk about it but it is like one of those things that you feel might be thrown around that makes no sense to you.
Examples of form
The examples of form are endless.
Basics of Basics of FormHow to practice FormThe first thing you should know about form, it's fucking hard. There's no doubt it is probably one of the hardest things you will try to draw. It may not look like it at first but as you slowly learn to draw you realize it is really hard to learn in itself. So how do you learn it? Learning it you can use either traditional or digital, but for money wise, I would suggest digital if you had to pick but it doesn't matter too much. You need to follow the rules and practice so please actually read resources and their exercises. Form is very much a practical and logical fundie. Pick a resource and try to stick to that resource. Resources
DAB is a free resource, I would suggest doing 0 to 1 lessons for basic foundation of form.
A 2 hour video that reviews more in depth the basics, suggested for those feel they need more details and info than the other videos.
This is to show more real life example of a cube and drawing it using real life object exercise.
There are more resources out there
Peter Han, Kim Jung gi, and more people have classes or resources online but, they may not be free. Those are options for more detail and more quality resources if you feel that other stuff is not clicking for you. Keep in mind, that form follows perspective rules however, form is not perspective. Perspective is the rules an object follows or Perspective is the rules that dictate how forms appear and are drawn. This is the reason why form and perspective are slightly different from each other. In an image forms rarely ever appear from different perspectives instead, all the forms usually follow one cohesive perspective rule. For the love of god, please look up resources on pinterest or twitter for more guides on random form stuff.
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Hands are not as complex as you make them out to be in your head. They are rather simple once you learn the form and rules of them. They become easier as you draw them down the line. Fingers have 3 joints and and small indents/bumps that really make it look correct. It is important to keep an eye out for small details.
Some Notes: So generally you want to get basic shapes if you are struggling drawings hands, the goal is to really get the idea of the position, angle, and pose of the hand before adding all the detail. You can approach all the detail if that works for you as well. You should not avoid drawings hands, draw them every single time you can so that way they won't be hard part of drawing eventually. If you wanna master hands learn to foreshortening methods and also just how to show the form of the hands. You can simplify the wrinkles but joint wrinkles might not be best to get rid of since they make it easier to draw hands and fingers. Pay attention to the wrist area connecting the hand.
Hand info:
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