Learn how to draw and paint hands. How to avoid the most common mistakes. By Ben Lustenhouwer
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A Tutorial on how to draw and paint hands. I know what most of you are having problems with and I show how to simplify the most common complications.
It is my intention to publish more of everything I know about portrait painting .
And I want this information to be free for everyone. Some compensation for my efforts comes from the publicity which you see appearing occasionally. I hope you don't find it too annoying.
Until now I received the most nice and grateful reactions from all over the world.
And that gives me a lot of satisfaction.
In my blog you will find even more information about portrait painting and a free eBook “One hundred portraits”: www.paintingpor...
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The website of my cousin Will Sophie who wrote and performed the most fantastic compositions for me: willsophiemusi...
"I struggled too." He says as he shows his masterpiece at age 13
Hope this does not mean that the rest of us will need half a century to catch up. :-D
I don’t have that much time left. He’s a very good teacher. This is one of the best hand drawing demos. I started drawing after retiring from 30 yrs of special ed teaching. Newly discovered interest. High learning curve thanks to internet. I played piano, violin and domra in community orchestras. Art is my go to creative outlet these days.
IMHO - Ben, you are one of our greatest living portrait artists, and that you are willing to pass on your knowledge to help other artists only enhances our love and appreciation of all that you do for us.
Thank you for these kind words.
Who the hell (20) thumbed down this video? I’m drawing a hand with my minds eye with only 1 finger raised!
His videos are detailed and easy to absorb. Also FREE instructional advice that you would pay for at a workshop of University.
Thank you for spending time, preparing and instructing.
My pleasure
I love how you teach with passion, I would listen to you all day, so calm, make it simple, explains all of your color mixing and their purpose, very useful tips and you make me believe that I too can do it, one step at a time. Thanks a lot!
it´s my pleasure
Thank you so much for this, Mr Lustenhouwer. I'm sure you have heard this so many times, but I will say it again, you are an amazing artist and teacher! I am a pastel artist and have benefited greatly from your oil painting tutorials.
Thank you for your kind words
Ben, in addition to your terrific painting skill you are a marvelous communicator. Thank you for posting.
You are welcome.
You are an excellent teacher. What a great explanation of the seen and even not seen features of a hand. Thank you so much 🙏🏼
It´s my pleasure
Thank you for simplifying what, until now, seemed near impossible. The world benefits so much from your talents as artist & instructor.
Thank you Joseph
Naice sir
Just in the right time, you help me so much to step further. I like the simplicity, transparence and générosity you put on your teaching ,it,s gteat! Thanks so much
So nice to hear. Thank you
Thank you so much for this video! I love your teaching style. I love how you drew the planes on your own hand, and watching your painting process was so helpful as well. And thank you to your cousin for the beautiful music!
Thank you, most welcome.
Best I've ever seen. Period.
Thank you
So beautiful and informative lesson... Thanks for sharing...😊❤️😊
My pleasure 😊
Thank you Ben. I have been struggling with a hand in my current painting. Your explainations and way of teaching are so relatable and help me to make sense of the task. Today is the first time I’ve watched one of your tutorials and I can wait to learn more! Thank you , thank you !
Thank you
Without a doubt the most clear and helpful guide on hands I have ever seen. Thank you Ben!
You're very welcome!
Thankyou so much for doing this wonderful video. You are an exceptional teacher. I love how much colour you put in the skin tones, shadows and highlights.
It is my pleasure
another wonderful video that breaks down something complex into something simple. Thank you.
My pleasure Mimi
Your way with colours is killer
really blow me away.
nice to hear
A HUGE THANK YOU for your perfect lessons.You are amazing teacher
Thank you Eleni.
Yes you speak good English and I notice you say different from when today they mostly say different to. Such a great teacher and a great painter
thank you Mary
Best teacher on TH-cam! Thank you so much!
well, well. Thanks
Ben, grat teacher you are. How I wish I had this lesson 50 years back. God bless you.
Thank you.
This video made me smile a lot of times. From "I use my hand. It's always there" to "Even more naples yellow". It is so pleasing to watch you paint Mr. Lustenhouwer. Not to mention, I play your videos side by side when I draw or paint. It makes the whole process a calming experience. Thank you!
Thank you for your nice comment
Thank you Ben, that was a wonderful and mesmerising demonstration with a beautiful result at the end.
Thank you
WOW and WOW. Thanks so much. Blessings.
Thank you Mario
Hello from South Africa. Absolutely brilliant tutorial 💐⭐️ Thank you so much, sir.
I can't describe my excitement when i saw that today's video was about painting hands! It goes without saying that the result justified the beforehand excitement! Thank you Maestro!
Wow, thank you!
This is the best explanation on hands that I’ve ever seen! Thank you!
So nice to hear.
Thank you for this perfect lesson
I could not draw it perfectly but after watching this video I can!!!😀
!!!!!!!!!
fantastic
I've been painting for several years. I also watch a lot of videos on the subject and this is certainly the most beautiful painting demonstration I've seen so far.
Thank you
Спасибо, добрый человек!!! ❤
Пожалуйста
Thanks for drawing on your hand. I think it helped me a lot to understand the basic "landmarks" better.
Glad it was helpful!
absolutely the best instructual video i have ever seen. i was alittle disappointed when you said your showing it in fast mode other wise it would be too long. i was in for the long haul. i learned alot, truly alot. thank you for teaching the way you do. its my first time running across your video. i plan on seeing more of your videos thank you again and God Bless.
Thank you. A new video soon will come
You are an amazing teacher❤! I love how clearly you are showing us about how hands work and how to draw them! Thank you! 😊
Thank you Alexandra
What can I say about your painting I am constantly watching you and I am learning, I am learning, and I am learning, but what has impressed me about you is the language. And we explain. I am Greek and I speak a little English, the way you speak your language makes me participate and understand you to 70%. I am 65 years old and self-taught since my childhood, I have been painting for the last 12 years, I added soft pastel except oils, thank you Yours sincerely
Thank you.
I discovered the solution that I understand the English you speak you are Dutch for this and I understand you if you were English or American I would not understand anything
Wat een geweldige manier om handen uit te leggen met het tekenen op de hand. Ik probeer altijd uit te gaan van een want. Dank voor het delen!!
Bedankt Dita.
You are an amazing painter and teacher. I am mainly a digital and watercolor painter, but after feeling bored I decided I wanted to brush up on my oil paintin' skills. I have learned more in a few hours of watching your videos than I have through trial and error over that last 15 years. I understand the fundamentals now and don't feel like I'm blinding painting until something hopefully makes sense. Even darker tones/shadows are less intimidating now. Thank you so much!!!!
You are very welcome.
Ben, thank you for this free tutorial. You are sharing blessings to emerging artists like me. Thank you for allowing yourself to water someone else's passion and dreams. You are an inspirational teacher. Please keep doing what you do, giving courage and grace to a world like we have today. God bless you.
My pleasure!
WOW you are a great teacher 😁
thank you Patricia
Fantastic hand demo work sir 👌❤❤❤
Thank you
What an excellant teacher. I've learned so much thank you for the video.
Thank you Debbie
Ben you are a genius 😍💘
I don´t know.
Great. Wow
Thanks.
Beautiful lesson!! Thanks much for sharing your Knowledge sir!
My pleasure!
This is the best hand tutorial I’ve ever experienced thank you very much for time wisdom and knowledge
Thank you very much
@@lustenhouwer very welcome
Why would people dislike this?
Awesome Master class! I appreciate your video, I learned a lot. Thank you so much!
You are welcome Olga
"Use paint to paint. Without paint you can't paint."
Love it
And so it is
Hi Ben，
My brother was an artist. When he passed away, I was very sad and began to learn to paint. I didn't have a teacher. I had already made copies of Van Gogh and Monet, and I knew the process would continue.
Thank you
Nice to hear.
Dank je Ben voor deze duidelijke video over de handen. Fijn dat je op mijn eerdere verzoek bent in gegaan.
Geen dank Klaas
Thank Ian. This was monumentally wonderful...
thank you Greg
I love everything about this tutorial. Packed full of incredibly helpful information as usual. You are by far my favourite artist and teacher on the internet. Thank you for your generosity.
You are so welcome!
Just wonderful, thanks
Many thanks!
It's not about skills it's not about talent. But it's about understanding about your concept!
Excellent ! Jamais je n'avais vu, de ma vie, une telle explication pour dessiner et peindre des mains. Merci infiniment !
It is my pleasure.
Excellent teaching!!! Keeping simple for shapes and tonal values makes it a perfect block-in before letting yourself get into details. Letting paint be paint and just learning how to mix and apply makes so much easier! Keeping loose but really thinking and seeing carefully with thought out preparation. I love to watch you paint!
Thank you Nikki
Thank you ver much, you are a great teacher.. I like the way you are teaching 👍👍👍🌹
Thanks
As usual: an essential point and your outstanding common sense.
Hands are present in many portraits. Moreover: they are key elements of expression in any scene.
I got stuck trying to draw portraits because some artists leave the hands unfinished, sketched in quick impressionist srokes. You have to find a model of hand to fitthere: same size and position. Finally you get bored with a collection of hand models and portraits...
I´ll have to use my left hand, as you sketch it. With a mirror it can be turned into a right hand. By chance I happened to heard you talking about poor draftmanship and mentioning David Hockney's BBC documentary. I watched it: it helps to keep on and not give up. Also the example of Van Gogh's "heavy hand" and his hard work to overcome that pychomotor handicap at the Cormon academy 4 years after his dead and having as fellow students Emil Bernard and Toulouse Lautrec. Prodigy child E. Bernard ended wasting his gift as draftstman. T. Lautrec succeeded thanks to his draughtmanship...but still Van Gogh went much farther despite his motor disability.
Thanks , once again, for your practical lessons.
Thank you!
Ben, you are amazing. Firstly, you give a perfect lesson in English when your first language is Dutch. Then you provide gems of information without charging for them. I shall keep this video in my favourites list for reference. I will use it often. Thank you so much.
Thank you Glyn
Deutsch bitte
Firstly?
Man thanks for your existence 😭💕🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
No thanks.
Take my breath away, thank you for the lesson and the demo!
My pleasure!
I always appreciate you Ben. Thank you for important informations and transfer of your experience.❤
Thank you
Thanks for this class
Its too helpfull for me....❤❤❤
good to hear. Thank you
Great presentation ... mapping.
I hear and I forget.
I see and I remember.
I do and I understand.
(Confucius)
Thanks Mr. Lustenhouwer!
You are welcome.
Learning from you, Ben, continues to be a pleasure. I've already learnt so much and I know that process will continue. Thanks.
More to come!
As always Ben, very precise and didactic... Among other tutorials, yours are top... You don't aim to make a show of your work, but helping your audiance with a pertinent teaching... Thank you.
Thank you Georges
You are quickly becoming my favorite
nice to hear
Such a clear and helpful tutorial! Thanks a lot!
you are welcome
Thank you! What an awesome thing you are doing....teaching us something we are destined to fail without!!!
Some things simply cannot be learned from a book
Much respect and appreciation!!!
Thank you Robin
Perfect explanations, especially telling us in detail about mixing the colors which are very important and writing down what are you mixing, thank you you are very kind, God bless you.
Glad it was helpful!
You walk around with not only one, but two hands, and still have not seen them! Thank you sir, this was brilliant!
My pleasure!
Thank you. Excellent teaching!🎨
Thank you too
Your teachings are way too helpful. Thankyou sir
My pleasure
Merci beaucoup Ben pour ce cours de dessin/peinture
You are welcome
I have never seen any teaching of hands where the teacher draws on their hand to demonstrate how to draw them. Amazing! Well done sir! Thank you
Thank you so much 😀
شكرا لك 🌹.. لقد كنت أبحث كثيررر كيف ارسم اليد.. شكرا جزيلا لك💚💚💚
شكرا لك
Thank you - your demonstration was clear and very informative.
Thank you Sandra
You are an amazing teacher 💕
Thank you
Thank you Hadeer
Really opened my eyes to the hand structure in the first few minutes. Fantastic! Thank you. I plan to draw hands as much as possible rather than avoid them.
Good luck!
l am a new beginner, you are a good teacher for me ,thank you Ben
You're very welcome!
superb lesson! clear and beautiful! Thanks so much.
You are welcome
Love you so much!!
Thank you
So generous of you to share your knowledge and skill. Lovely painting also!
My pleasure 😊
Ben, thank you for the wealth of information and insight.
My pleasure!
I did not like it Ben... I LOVED IT!! SO GOOD TO WATCH. THAN K YOU SO VERY MUCH!
Dank je Karen.
This is BRILLIANT. You are so cool! Im delighted, thank you very mach
I'm glad you like it
Thank you Ben everything, I learned a lot from you!!! Big hug from Hungary :)
Thank you Bia
Very useful demonstration, Ben. I am working on a portrait of my granddaughter. The photo is Black and white. I was really really finding it very difficult to judge the shades of her back of the palm that is rested under her ear and on the right shoulder. Wow...your guidance will help me choose most of the shades as her skin complexion is almost the same as in this video. Thanks Ben. I appreciate your time taken for this video.
Good luck!
Thanks hun. Always grateful
thank you Aubrey
You've made clear the care that is necessary in the foundation of form through consideration of all the values you've used here. Thank you.
You're very welcome!
Amazing work
Thanks a lot 😊
Incredibly helpful!! Thank you!!
Thank you Genevieve
Thank you for this very good lesson. After all this years of palnting I will now put my energy in painting a decent pair of hands at last. I also liked the mysterieus music on the background. Greetings from Harm van der Veen
Thank you Harm. Succes!
You are simply great!!!❤️
Oh thank you!
Braaaaaviiiiii 😍
Thank you
Many tanks for your lesson its a treasure.
Thank you Francesco
Hello, I’m new to your channel I am in awe of how you explain drawing and painting hands so clearly. To tell you the truth I have difficulty with hands it makes me wanna be angry or something, and you explain it so well thank you I got into oil painting recently. I am experienced in painting I never tried painting with oil paint before so this is a new experience for me.
Thank you for your kind words.
Het is weer fantastisch uitgelegd Ben. En inderdaad, handen schilderen is toch iets aparts. Ik heb deze video twee keer bekeken inmiddels. En het is net zoals al je andere video's een prachtig naslagwerk. Bedankt en keep save Ben. Ik ben echt een fan van je.
Dank je Eve!
😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩so beautiful painting 🖼
Thank you! Cheers!
Thanks a million for sharing your experience and knowledge always. It’s pure gold the way you’re breaking down the way of seeing the hand structure in terms of drawing! Experience and passing knowledge on others makes the great masters being remembered forever for all that heritage! I really improve my skills by learning from your experience since some time ago!! All the best for you Ben!!!
So nice of you José Luis.
Muchas gracias, Ben. Aprendo mucho con tus videos.
Gracias Antonio