Contour Line Hands

Contour Line Hands- NO SHADING!

Day 1:
Take a 18x24 sheet of paper and fold it into 4 sections. 

Look at your hand and pose them in a position so you can see the palm.  (No high fives)Draw just the outline of your hand, LARGER than the real thing, fill the space.

Now go to a blank area, switch and draw the back side of the hand- no fist or high five, but now a bit more detail, nails etc. 

For the third a fist from the palm side.  Draw more details, wrinkles that form and nails etc.

For the forth have draw whatever pose you want- be creative, more detail, no value.

Here are examples:

http://apollo13art.com/National/lifedrawing1/lectures/gesture_contour.html
http://studiojuliakay.com/portraitproject/2007_11_01_archive.html (Scroll down)
http://gal4.piclab.us/key/contour%20line%20drawings%20of%20hands  ( There are some good ones and bad ones!!)

Day 2 and 3

Now you are going to create cross contour line drawings from these hands, giving them form by using just lines.

Here are the examples.

http://studentwork.isabelmar.com/24/hand.html

Notice the way the line changes with the different contours of the hands.  They look 3-D (form) without value, just line!!!

On the back of your drawings rank your hands from 1-4 1 being the best 4 the worst, tell me why you ranked them that way.