Contour Hands

The idea of this project was to create contour hands like we had in foundations of art but incorporate contour designs as well. For mine, I made magical hands with line work as my designs.

For this project used a pencil, for the many sketches, Gel Pen, for the final details, and watercolor paints for the shading and magical effects.

The biggest issue I encountered when doing this project was bleeding pen. From what I thought I knew Sharpie gel pen did not bleed, but it in fact did. This messed with the shading and the overall neatness of the art. To solve this issue I started over and created the foundations of the piece "Dizzy Hands" I decided I still wanted to incorporate some shading as it has been something that I have been trying to challenge myself with, but the background instead was full of pen. As it was only a thing gel pen I had to add a lot more design and dizzy lines than I had ever thought I would but the time it took was worth the final design as it challenged many of my skills as an artist and I learned many things about materials and shading.