Hand Sketch

The creation of this hand painting employed a three-step process, starting with a pencil sketch in a sketchbook to establish the initial form and details. This hands-on approach gave an organic and expressive rendering of the pose and anatomy of the hand. The sketch served as the blueprint for the subsequent digital processes.

The second step involved scanning the pencil sketch and importing it into Adobe Illustrator. In Illustrator, the hand-drawn image was redrawn in great detail with vector tools. This converted the boundary of the hand into clear, scalable vector line work with ability to rescale without sacrificing definition. Also, the method suggests that geometric shapes might have been used as structural underpins or guides within this digital inking process for describing planes and forms.

The final process was the coloring in Illustrator. Different parts of the hand were digitally colored with chosen colors, likely using gradients and solid fills to achieve a sense of volume, light sources, and shadow areas. Directed use of color and visual depth could be achieved in this digital coloring process, bringing life to the linework and introducing an aspect of realism or stylistic interpretation to the final work. The order of the conventional sketching followed by digital vectorization and coloring shows a mix of art style.