Tài liệu tham khảo tiếng Anh về hội họa - Drawing Dynamic Hands - Vẽ bàn tay - Phần 7 | 7. INVENTING HANDS IN ACTION The best hand actions are not necessarily copied exactly from life. Pictorial logic design necessity and the overall concept of the work impose their own demands. Anyone who has seen the interpretive and expressive responses of Leonardo Michelangelo Grünewald or Rodin will understand the need of the artist to create form in response to his intuitive impulses. A starting point for drawing an original and personal hand in action is to sketch perhaps even copy a prosaic view of one of the hand s numerous gestures. It does not have to show a remarkable attitude or even a near relationship to the expected result. It can be only a starting point from which you can develop your own personal vision. 94 OUTSIDE AND THUMBSIDE PALM In the upper sketch note how a simple movement of the index finger upward and downward can convey a sense of excitement and different shades of meaning. Changes in the position of the little finger add further emotional inflections to the movement. In he lower drawing each finger change alters the meaning of the gesture. Study these drawings and experiment with changing emotional connotations by moving the drawings into different positions. 95 PARALLEL PROJECTION The parallel projection method is a useful device for visualizing possible new hand views. Start with a simple sketch of some easily worked out action such as the side view with extended fingers shown here. Then set out a few horizontal track lines extending from major forms. In this case thumb and palm muscle thickness and index and little finger lengths are being tracked. These choices are purely arbitrary and only .
