Gato comes back with hands

 

Hands and such part II. Internalizing the rules. 

I started friday and had to go back to work so the first sketches are stiff copies of a Gaston comic: 

The artist stresses the size of the palm so that you have a really fat palm on a tiny wrist. This makes the hands easier to read and therefore expressions easier to catch. 

 There are some Craig Thompson hands inbetween, he's fantastic with composition and purposeful drawing. There are a lot of hooks and inverted lines in thise hands, the opposite of the fleshy, round hands of Gaston. They seem delicate, young, very dancing, flowing hands. Just like the lines.

There are some hands by Virginie Augustine who mainly works with those modern animation principles which are so popular latley where you use dynamic forms together with one side that has structure and one side that has direction (structure vs. gesture). I don't like them but it's nice to know.

Then some hands by Cyrill Pedrosa who are very abstrakt. Those have a nice, fresh feeling.

In the second pic there's one page with Ralph Steadman hands which are very wonky but have all the necessary clues that a hand needs, the expression, the dimension, the volume.. they are ugly but with meaning.

The rest are all own hands. Somewhere at the bottom of page 1 I got into a flow and pushed some more exaggerated form into these hands so that the expression follows one principle.

So I use rubbery fingers or big palms when necessary, round and stiff forms when necessary. 

Then I fall back to stiffness again, then to rubberyness.

For next week, I'll do 20 more hands where I push those forms in the hands and to have even clearer expressions. Internalizing, internalizing, internalizing.

I'll also do 50 gesture drawings of people who are dancing.

And the imageshack links of course:

http://imageshack.us/f/200/haende4klein.jpg/

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