Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508) was not, as has been assumed for centuries, a preparatory drawing for a painted altarpiece, but a finished work made as an advertisement for the master’s ...

To nail hand drawings, stop overcomplicating the anatomy and focus on the core shapes and movement. By breaking hands down into simple forms, you'll be able t sketch them confidently – whether ...

To draw hands accurately, you need to look past the complexity of their anatomy and recognise simple rules that will help you draw from a model, or even your own imagination. Although they're ...

Vena amoris, “vein of love” in Latin, was traditionally believed to run directly from the fourth finger of the left hand to the heart, hence that ring finger status. But all the fingers ...