portraits-hands are like the face
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Hands
Glenn Hirsch
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Nicolas de Largillierre, 1715
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Botticelli
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Nelly Nassif
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Bing Zhang
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Bing Zhang
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Peggy Millar
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Cynthia Kanios
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the hand is as big as the face
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right size intentionally too small
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Janet Benjamin
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Carolyn Wales
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hands appear bigger as they get closer
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Gene Faktorovich
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John Reamer
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first break it down into geometric shapes
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start with a
simplified
“paddle”
shape
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August Macke
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Find the rectangle
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exaggerate the wrist
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exaggerate the geometry of the fingers
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Cynthia Kanios (detail)Steve Chapman (detail)
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Emma Mankin
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foreshortening
fingers like “hoses” coming toward you
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Michelangelo
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Practice!
Leonardo da Vinci