Drawing hands can feel daunting, but the key is to break down their complexity into simple, repeatable rules. Whether you're sketching from a model or straight from your imagination, understanding ...

Writers, artists, critics and historians are used to describing different kinds of drawn marks and lines, yet we tend not to think very exactly about in how the hand making the mark was holding the ...

In our month-long quest to get stronger hands and forearms, we’ve trained our crush grip, support grip, and pinch grip. Now it’s time for a different challenge: open hand grip, the kind of grip that ...

I’m not good at drawing. In fact, I’m positively dreadful. A few years ago, I took a watercolor class. My mother would have been proud of what I did—if I were still in the third grade, not a late ...