Lemonade Photo-set: Hands (Patreon)

When Priss modelled for the first time for me at Draw, I was struck by her hand poses and the interesting ways in which she used her hands for life modelling. The most characterful and variously articulated part of the body, hands are really useful and challenging visual stimulus, and the interactions between hands and face is brimming with narrative and emotion. My imagination sparks and fires as soon as I look at reference images like these, with so many gestures and shapes to borrow for in future artworks.

Recommended:

• Artists to looks at: Egon Schiele, Audrey Kawasaki, James Jean

- Laura

ps. You can find a full schedule of future releases and accompanying teaser images of each set here.

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Use the Draw Patreon Navigator to find any of our past photosets and take a look at our blogs on how to gather, manipulate and translate photo reference. 

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• Download these pictures to your own computers and devices, downloading the Zip files for all images, or saving individual photos.
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• Share these photographs with anybody else – they are between you and us
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Thanks!