Finger Drawing Mistakes You’re Making - Hand Critiques

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We’re back for Part 2 of the Hand Critiques. This time I want to help you improve the way you’re drawing fingers. I’ll go over a few things that will help you make your fingers more expressive, dynamic and 3D. I’ll show you how to avoid 2 common mistakes - snowman and sausage fingers.
If you haven’t seen the main lessons on hands, make sure to watch those:
How to Draw Hand Bones: • How to Draw Hand Bones...
Part 1 - Muscle Anatomy of the Hand: • How to Draw HANDS - Mu...
Part 2 - Details for Realistic Hands!: • How to Draw HANDS - De...
Part 3 - Drawing Hands from Imagination: • How to Draw Hands from...
Tips on Shading and Drawing Hands: • Graphite Pencil Demo -...
How to Draw a Fist: • How to Draw a Fist - H...
How to Draw Cartoon Hands: • How to Draw Cartoon Ha...
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Artist | Instructor | Producer - Stan Prokopenko (www.stanprokopenko.com)
Production Assistance - Sean Ramsey (www.peoplewhodrawstuff.com), Brandon Storer, Cody Shank
Editing - Yana Popova, Sean Ramsey, Stan Prokopenko
Students - Nicholas Allott, Neville Harvey, Nick Valente, Sharleen Cu, Jaclyn Quijano, Sonal Prabhune, Christian Aarestrup, Casper Uldal Olsen, Don Sandor, Lucian Smoot, Fiona Prior, TreeZa MaGdy, Cristian Camilo Guzman
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Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
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Alright!!

[@mizo2452]

nice video as always, have something to say sometimes the form is drawn correctly and the wrong shading destroy the form especially when the core shadow is not flowing correctly , what i'm really looking forward to clarify the mystery of the shading statement on tracing the core shadow correctly especially when it is not clearly visible on the form and how the core shadow flow and connects through out various forms and where it breaks and when the core shadow edge is lost and diapers with clear examples , is really disappointing for me as a student when i understand anatomy and perspective and i can't express that knowledge due a leak of one important aspect like shading,

[@CrasyWolfGirl]

I wanna share a little tip that has helped me when working with references: make it black and white. If you only need to see the shapes and shadows it is easier to see and copy those when the colour is not distracting from the shading.

[@Mateusz-qw9pt]

Someone need to take proko from the thumbnail and draw the rest of him playing a guitar solo

[@sway71]

Mind blown! Your critique about the curve being roughly the same on the front and back of the finger helped me immensely. It was even better to see how you formed the fat padding after getting that initial form/shape. This has helped me with both my drawing and my 3D sculpting in Blender! Thank you!

[@juju99449]

Thank you thank you thank you for providing this amazing opportunity to so many people for free. Your videos have helped me so much. I’ll be sure to look into the premium version. :)

[@flamealligator6984]

Excellent critiques! Now, I will look at my own hand studies for similar mistakes.

[@thomaseulogy7206]

Just want to thank you for your content. Went thru all hand videos (including April fools one), filled sketchbook with tips and examples. I can draw hand better only 5 years more and I will be confident with it. Anyways THANK YOU FOR AWESOME vids! You are great teacher.

[@marb1317]

I guess you could say these are some great *finger-tips*.

[@thechosenone2342]

😂😂 good one

[@joseabendeck8266]

Proko, sir, youre a beast!. love your videos!

[@viniciusmiranda762]

That's some solid Finger Tips right there...

[@CaCriGuz]

Great video, thank you for those amazing advices !! Cheers :D

[@brenttaylordotus]

my fingers actually look like 5 sausages so I thought Nick's was perfect

[@109joiner]

I was about to say that. Ha ha.

[@iamkartvya29]

@@109joiner he said that 4 years before you💀

[@109joiner]

@@iamkartvya29 I never noticed, I wonder if he’s still alive.

[@milkbread5036]

THANK YOU SO MUCH! I struggle the most with fingers!

[@HayashiKaiji]

I wish I had better memory so I can memorize all these information.

[@everettwhite9874]

Cho Lin The Subscribe and Notification buttons are great memory aides. You can create your favorite playlists too.

[@thomaseulogy7206]

Here´s a short version: No snowmen with sausages! Thumbs are dogheads.

[@viniciusmiranda762]

I find useful to have a notebook with me and just replicate his drawings, while also taking notes.

[@luciathefemininewoman]

Cho Lin In psychology there is such thing as short term memory or long term memory. Thomas Frank did a video mentioning recall versus recognition. For artists memorizing something you want to draw. You need to practice and re draw your mistakes in order to get the most out of your practice for drawing hands.

[@StaffGanion]

No one should be able to remember everything from just 1 go in their entire life, therefore watch this again if you feel uncertain when drawing hands! Learning is a process that takes time to master and you shouldn't feel discouraged if you don't see improvements in a short period of time.

[@TheTillinger123]

I´d be very interested in you showing drawings from other artists that you really like, and explain what draws you to them. Would be much appreciated to watch you talk about drawings that are as perfect as possible. For me it might be stuff from Robert Liberace, Albrecht Dürer or John Howe perhaps :)

[@RexArtTv]

I need a hand with my work

[@n.p.2054]

was that I pun I saw

[@luciathefemininewoman]

Rex Art Use your hand as reference. This is why beginner artists should draw from real life and photo references.

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Ask kira

[@dollybharali1500]

I love your teaching

[@naturaureaurealopez]

Thanks for your videos 💖✨✨✨✨✨just now, I must draw hands with fisch.

[@jwinner6940]

From my heart Thx😭😭😭😭😭❤️❤️❤️

[@tucainga]

Nice channel with great overview over anatomy drawing. But the correction on the pinky finger on the first draw counters the nature of anatomy, the advice looks almost anime type, the finger will never naturaly bend like that, only if in pressure. The original was actualy more ocurate even if not completly correct.

[@Thestripper1]

Thank you for yet another great video! I have gotten a lot better but I am avoiding you stylized swoop back of the finger tip. Yes it might look good, or cool or whatever. But it's not realistic.

[@kantasoni7870]

Very informative 🎉

[@vickiyearian6964]

I would like to see a callus/raised area on the 1st and 2nd fingers on you drawing, it would help define the area between the fingers and hand. I am enjoy/learning a lot from your videos, Thank you! (:

[@jenniferbrown2901]

So glad i found you

[@paxonite-7bd5]

That is one big tablet

[@ataayare3394]

it's beautiful tnx

[@PaperPatriot]

Are you going to cover the legs this year?

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Ur videos are really nice😎👌

[@Cartterr.]

Thank you pal

[@THUNGUNS]

Your a saviour!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@oldmanlowgun]

Unintentionally hilarious. "Sausage sausage sausage..."

[@n.p.2054]

This is extremely helpful! I can't believe I've been falling for these stupid mistakes for so long. Thank you, so absolutely much. =)

[@tafahm2012]

Thanks

[@curtisnewton895]

thx for sharing

[@user-eo8ph2di2i]

Thank you

[@redcloversubliminals2497]

4:15 Snowman effect 😂 that's funny

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PROKO YOU NEED TO DO VIDEOS EXPLAINING HOW TO DRAW LEGS, I'M HAVING A HARD TIME. IF YOU DO I'M NOT GONNA BE SELFISH ANYMORE AND I'LL BE SHARING ALL YOUR VIDEOS EVEN WITH MY UNCLE'S DOG PLEASE

[@kamilahscorner6602]

Honestly I’m learning more how to draw here than I did at college.

[@Originalimoc]

The funny things about ☃️ effect is it's almost the opposite of correct work which the joints are tend to be out not in.

[@jessillaaaa]

now i know, thanks!!

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Awesome

[@yogasri9765]

thank you nice

[@maverickh9]

I think you misunderstood the original orientation of the hand model in 4:43. In yours the hand is fully extended with a straight wrist whereas the original has the hand slightly cupped with wrist also slightly extended out.

[@terrancevanliew1814]

They had the same reference image.

[@Ja.abbatta_V]

Can you teach us how to draw legs?

[@theart6986]

perfect

[@mayuronce]

Nice....

[@danure]

Wow, on the 1st one I can't even get my pinky to bend like that. I get that it looks more appealing (or dynamic), but the original was truthfully more accurate.

[@ProkoTV]

+danure shoot for 80% accurate and 20% awesome

[@MusicalRaichu]

@@ProkoTV old video i'm looking at but that was my reaction too. your comments are helpful to be sure, but perhaps a little subjective and unfair to people who might be trying to capture the realistic form objectively. with the first one, my little finger looks something in between theirs and yours.

[@anikasinger2457]

danure same I was sitting here seeing if my finger even bent that way but no

[@jbutoudent]

Talk about an opening!

[@loveleeluv7]

The pinky finger and the others do not usually curve outwards that like a thumb does. This may be a little fantasy. Does Dorian do hands this way too?

[@A10Eiro]

Very nice video, I learned much from it BUT I think that those people, especially the last one (that thumb) was much fatter than in your re-draw, I would like to see some fatter hands from you :) because peole start thinking fat and THAT makes them draw the snowman effect, I find it very difficult myself and always mess up

[@Suveramort]

Top (*insert number*) videos Justin Y. Didn't watch Btw i love your videos proko

[@danfors1333]

I don't have that S-curve at all on my fingers. Some people do have that snowman look for real.

[@ProkoTV]

+Dan Fors send me some pics of your hands. I wanna see! (Not weird at all)

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@@ProkoTV That's him officer, that's that weirdo

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Kira yoshikage vibes right here

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@@ProkoTV HAND PICS NOW

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Мне очень нравится как ты рисуешь руки))

[@ernestvenn8291]

Question how to draw wrinkles and fold in anatomy?

[@randommcranderson5155]

When you realize the first example is everyone losing the circle game.

[@RubbinRobbin]

Hey Proko, what kind of chair is that?

[@lepruconx]

9:12 i cant help but think the ring finger looks broken...

[@BraxtonGaither]

I know this is a four year old video -- So, sue me for being laaaaaaate to the party, but all this info is top-notch! I've been reevaluating my art, lately. Just wanting to do more study and brush up on my anatomy and all your content on anatomy is spectacular! I am planning on paying for a full course, soon -- just broke at the moment, lol.

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hi thank you for useful information, where is your group for share drawing?how can i join there?

[@gu_art5196]

I am new to the world of art, a complete amateur. So a question kind off strike my mind. The hands drawn here are being corrected and adjusted for minute details so how important is it to go into details if I want to do concept art and characters. Do I have to go in depth into anatomy, or fundamentals are enough. Can someone guide me here or send any link to articles dealing with this.

[@theconsumer4366]

If you want to do concept art you don't have to go as in-depth as he does here, but a solid understanding of anatomy and figure drawing can certainly help. I would recommend a channel called LoveLifeDrawing, his style is less detailed than Proko's, but still very pretty and expressive.

[@tiredotaku6089]

I'm painting on my wall, my wall ain't about to have a sausage finger drawing on it

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Modern day Leonardo davinci

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جميل👏🏼

[@jaimearias5813]

You’re so brillant. I love cows, they really love this planet

[@THUNGUNS]

add cc pls

[@seanramsey]

Usually the CC for critiques is added about a week later.

[@MrWeebs-gc2jj]

2:44 gotem

[@rell7471]

Poor snowman ☃️

[@megazone2337]

so i learned snow man effect and sausage ...

[@thecoolercapybara7785]

Tbh I gave up on drawing this is really fucking hard. I got myself a really bad headache doing this

[@anwarrahmoon8352]

where can i find the group to submit my work?

[@seanramsey]

It's at proko.com/groups

[@anwarrahmoon8352]

Sean Ramsey Thanks!

[@Cam-SB]

Your swoops are too much. Fingers don't swoop that much unless you force them to. It's not natural. Everything else is pretty accurate, however. If your saying it swoops because of the padding on each joint of the finger, then your not looking close enough and examining it. Fingers swoop at the very end of the tips. After the swoop it does the sausage for a moment before going straight or before going to the knuckle.

[@whatyousee3225]

one look to the thumbnail and i knew things gonna get "twisted" on this video ;P

[@cryingoverspilledmilk9569]

I really can't draw hands like for real

[@sgtpepper91]

so just ignore the photo reference and greatly overexaggarate joints and shapes. got it, Proko. not everyone has perfect model hands so don't expect people to draw THEIR OWN HANDS as if they were perfect model hands.

[@neonelll]

So sorry mr Porko, but 4:30 ring finger on your picture looks completely broken, even for my armature's point on view. It's proximal phalanx tries to take a different angle BUT it's 2nd and 3rd phalanges seems to be disagree. And they trying to keep same angle with the rest of fingers that makes whole finger to look broken. You can draw a circular cuts where phalanges connects to see that clearer.

[@pedramtajeddini5100]

You're actually right. I have skinny fingers and i couldn't make my hands look like that from any angle using my phone's camera. That's why i think it's better to look at hand while drawing to make it look more realistic

[@queenkitty6119]

Sausaaaage Effect😂😂😂😂

[@maxfortin3563]

I'm sorry but the first finger, even tho you have the "gesture" there's no way that's a normal position for a pinky in the position the hand is. That just looks wrong if you put it back on the hand ... Edit : Wrote that before seeing all the comments. Yup, I'm not the only one...)

[@mizo2452]

cool tutorial as always, but lets say i'm a master in anatomy, perspective, and know all human figure planes in perspective but there is no way with all of those info to make one decent depict for a complex form like the human figure with no idea about using edges correctly between light tones and dark tones "not only core shadow "by only knowing the basics of lightning over a sphere that everyone already knows :/ there are many things needs clarifying thx

[@alma-wi]

hmm!...I'm really glad! Your videos have been very helpful to me sofar, since I can't afford to take a course. BUT sth. is wrong this time. Your drawing of the 2nd Improved-Hand is confusing and even IRRITATING me, ... somehow. - While I'm totally with you on all the Critiques, and on your 1st improvements, I'm quite unhappy with the entire improvement-drawing of the 2nd hand (04:28). I find the OVERLAPS on the pinkie weird looking. And on the ringfinger this sharp (lower)bend, it looks like a 'kink' (or a broken finger), and on the side of fingertip-segment, it looks like a ebone sticking out. To me this entire drawing seems wrong ... , not least because of the almost pointed fingers. Actually, the weirdlooking shadows, together with the large creases below the fingers 3, 4, 5, they give an impression as if this improved hand (05:57) is stuck in a kitchen-rubber-glove. ...

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This man is the Shapiro of art

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[@lukasbroderus8582]

A pinky doesnt bent in that S way tho

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pp

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Welcome hells kitchen But instead of gordan ramsey is proko And instead of kitchen its desk and paper And instead of hell its heavan And instead of yelling and offending its teachong you nicely Heavens desk and paper

[@blackcat19]

You lost me when you started "designing" (a.k.a. changing) the features on an actual photograph because, apparently, reality was not "interesting" enough for you. Why bother using photo reference then if you're just going to draw whatever you want anyway? And why should anyone listen to your anatomy advice when you're willing to deform real fingers to make them look cooler?

[@aliliz7204]

Because that's important in art. To not follow it to seriously you can stylized and make a drawing much better by bending reality, as long as it still looks around anatomically correct. If you stick to close to realistic proportions. You will have stiff drawings and no originality or style.

[@jaimearias5813]

Thanks