Vivian, you are the master of rendering with charcoal! It's so soft and hazy, like sfumato. The hands and fingers are really convincing, I love how the left hand fades away. Perhaps you could revisit some of the cast shadows and add more hints at fingers. The concept is so charming, I love how meta it is-- a drawing drawing itself.
Vivian, as always, this drawing is very accomplished. I really like the softness of the hands, and the anatomy looks terrific all around (maybe one thing to recheck is the third finger on the leftmost hand -- I can tell what it's doing, but it seems like the tip should appear slightly shorter from this perspective). The shadows in this piece are very strong, and I love the idea of hands drawing hands. The only thing that bothers me is that compositionally, I think it would have been stronger to have that leftmost hand come in at a sharper angle. I actually think it would have been a great composition if that were just negative space where that hand in, but I know you had to draw four. Maybe just adjust the angle to make that hand come in from the left edge? Really terrific work on the detail -- I can tell this took a lot of time!
This drawing is so impressive. I really like how you draw these hands, they look so smooth, soft and realistic. But I wonder why you don't finish hand on the the left.
Vivian, you are the master of rendering with charcoal! It's so soft and hazy, like sfumato. The hands and fingers are really convincing, I love how the left hand fades away. Perhaps you could revisit some of the cast shadows and add more hints at fingers. The concept is so charming, I love how meta it is-- a drawing drawing itself.
ReplyDeleteVivian, as always, this drawing is very accomplished. I really like the softness of the hands, and the anatomy looks terrific all around (maybe one thing to recheck is the third finger on the leftmost hand -- I can tell what it's doing, but it seems like the tip should appear slightly shorter from this perspective). The shadows in this piece are very strong, and I love the idea of hands drawing hands. The only thing that bothers me is that compositionally, I think it would have been stronger to have that leftmost hand come in at a sharper angle. I actually think it would have been a great composition if that were just negative space where that hand in, but I know you had to draw four. Maybe just adjust the angle to make that hand come in from the left edge? Really terrific work on the detail -- I can tell this took a lot of time!
ReplyDeleteThis drawing is so impressive. I really like how you draw these hands, they look so smooth, soft and realistic. But I wonder why you don't finish hand on the the left.
ReplyDeleteWonderful piece! But the shadow on the left seems a bit strange.
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