Wow good job everyone!
#2 for me:
with a little animated gif:
1 hour in Photoshop
Reference 17: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Louis-François Bertin
I think for my third one im going to do the left hand of the same painting, I like the pose of his fingers.
Keep going everyone! 
I am real excited to join. This is a topic that I could use a lot of help in so C&C is definetly welcome, because I could certainly benifit from it.
Frejasphere: I really like the use of color and texture put into your work.
iuvo: that is an intereest approach, I always stasrt with the sketch and then move on. Your way could be a fun way to begin, I might have to try my “hand” at it with one of my hands.
Calan: Nicely rendered
Here is my first hand
Ref#5 Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici: Dawn
Great Idea, Rebecca.
I really really need to practice on Hands , So you can expect a few works from me as well. Have been too busy to even post on CGTalk for months now… but I guess I really need this now!!!
Get Going, Dude !
APR. 12, 2008
GREAT IDEA for a workshop Rebecca…THANKS
I think I will use it to experiment with the IMPASTO oil brushes in the Corel Painter program…will go perfectly with my Rembrant painting technique studies that i’ves been doing lately and posted in my anatomy/sketchbook thread…
ANYWAY…Great starts so far, from everyone…
teo - disturbed/Mathew…Nice one,…I like your way of thinking and approach to the study…
#48…Rubens portrait of a young woman
Impasto oil brushes…thick clear varnish…depth smear…distorto impasto brushes used…Painter #9
Glenn
hi, great start everyone
my first 2 studies/ sketches
freehand pencil 9x12
ref from the book Michelangelo Drawings, Closer to the Master by Hugo Chapman
Mark
It took me wayyyy too long O_o I’m quite satisfied with the hand, but definitely not with the time I spent on it. First I used Painter’s watercolors, but had to fix it with eraser/airbrushes, to use watercolors again, then had to fix and so on… Had to stop finally, here is my hand #1 after hand from reference #35 Douleur d’amour [Elegy] by William Bouguereau (1825-1905):
(flipped)
Hi 
Thanks Rebecca for this new workshop. I would like to handle some hands getting a little bit more dirt on my hands with that handy program called zbrush; I hope to learn, and get inspiration from u all.
Here’s my first. Don’t tell me to refine it because I’m really full of this and I’ll move to another
Edit: tell me if it’s too big I’ll cut it to a single image and post a link to the wip in my sketchbook…
APR. 12, 2008
Took the one posted above a little bit further.
#48 Rubens portrait of a young woman.
Painter #9…Impasto oil brushes.
Glenn
Good to see stuff rolling in.
Now I don’t pretend to be a ‘teacher’ here because I learn from everyone who posts. So these comments are just my opinions, and as such, should be taken with a grain of salt.
SulaMoon, I like the last set of hands the best, maybe play with line variation?
Anand, great stuff, definitely looking forward to more! Wil you be making any 3D contributions?
Windroll, that’s looking excellent! I’d say though not to be 100% true to the photos colors, since unfortunately the colors are a little washed out in many of the photos / reference images. You will have to tweak to taste. 
NR43, the 2nd one is sweet!
zhay13, very nice too, I would say the same thing about the colors - you don’t have to be 100% true to the photo, since it’s a bit washed out. Nice work!
teo-disturbed, nice work on the shading. I’d suggest maybe refining the linework a bit more? Looking forward to more!
Frejasphere, I like the colors, but I think the values seem a little disorganized? Would love to see you try a medium like Faber Castell Polychromos - they’re great because they’re light, easily editable / erasable and have a great line quality.
iuvo, very nice!
calan, another beautiful work! Thanks for the gif.
Splinter, welcome. Would like to see more shading on the hand, though the outline is good.
Glenn, I’m not super crazy about this style - I’d love to see you get back to more representational works, some of your recent stuff seems more experimentation for experimentation’s sake only. I really like that you push yourself to do new things, I think that’s fantastic in fact, but I would love to see you rein it in a bit more and go back towards the fundamentals, which I think is lacking in your recent paintings. Just food for thought.
FateBringer, nice to see you aboard. Maybe shade a bit more finely?
sirielle, nice!
Agostinuke, great stuff, that’s totally fine to make a post like that, it’s informative.
Thanks for the Welcome Rebeccak. I hope that I can make it all the way through with this OFDW. I could really use the practice on drawing hands. By the the way I really find your work pretty interesting the textures that you put on them make them look like they are really old fresco, Cool Stuff.
Rebecca: Thanks! Good to know for the gif, Ill keep doing them. Love your last one, the texture and color palette are great. Very simple and pretty I think.
LadyPurple: Beautiful! And you did all of it… nice!
SpiritDreamer: Those Impasto oil brushes looks very interesting! Would love to see more definition on the hands
Agostinuke: Great model… cool to see some 3d in the workshop!
sirielle: Well done… even if your not happy with the time you spent on it. You sure will be faster after this workshop!
FateBringer: Great start! Keep going!
Splinter: Thank you Great lines. Agree with Rebecca, would be nice to have some shading
Sooo… Third one for me! I messed up a little be with this one. This hand pose is so weird and the fact that we loose a part between the thumb and the rest of the hand doesnt help the case. Anyway, it was a good pratice and I think thats the point of this workshop right? 
Maybe Ill get back to it later… for now thats it!
gif version:
Reference #17 Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867)
Louis-François Bertin
Enough for me today… will try to do 1 or 2 more tomorrow.
Rebecca Thanks , got lazy hehe, interesting textures your using may have to have a go at it myself
calan thank you , great job on your 3
LadyPurple great work
SpiritDreamer nice start
Agostinuke awesome
last one for today
William Bouguereau 1825-1905
La Charite- her left hand
b/w digital used grid
Mark
APR. 13, 2008
Rebecca…I like your experiments,whether they be for experimental sake or not…an experiment is an experiment, and is just a road to something new…nothing ventured, nothing gained is the way that I view an experiment…
calan…THANKS…I will do the hands in detail next…basically just blocking in at the moment, while experimenting and exploring with the possabilities of these impasto brushes that i’m working with.
Worked on her face and the background…hands next.
Glenn
APR.13, 2008
A little more work done on this Rubens drawing, while experimenting with REMBRANTS painting technique.
Glenn
anandpg nice one! First of many I hope :buttrock:
zhay13 great job
TheMiyamotoMusashi Just dig in there mate and ask yourself these questions while drawing (best way to find out!)
teo-disturbed nice start, would love to see some hatching from you
Annette great colors! Will do one one black paper as well now I saw yours
iuvo good start. try to make the fingers more “fleshy”
calan nice colors. The fingers seem a bit short though. (fingers are usually roughly the same length as the palm of the hand.
Splinter nice one! push your linework if you can… make the thickness of your lines more varied to accentuate points of interest.
Glenn would love to see you focus on the hands
FateBringer/Mark great to see you in on this one! the foreshortening seems a bit off in your first ones.
sirielle lovely colors. The thumb seems very thin to me
LadyPurple Really nice start here. Would love to see you push the values in your next studies to get more form
Rebeccak Thanks for your comments. The last one seems a bit flat (perhaps due to the textures). Would love to see a charcoal hand study from you!
embryotic nice one! more please
Here’s a few warmup sketches, done with Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Brush tip Pens
It shows that using a pen or ink can be quite unforgiving, especially the 2nd one, where I seriously screwed up lol. But one has to keep pushing. I plan to be working on my linework a lot the rest of the year.
3.
Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Madonna and Child [detail: 3]
Marble, 1501-1505
Vrouwekerk, Bruges
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Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Tomb of Lorenzo de’ Medici: Lorenzo de’ Medici [detail: 1]
Marble, 1524-1531
Sagrestia Nuova, San Lorenzo, Florence
Have a lot of studying to do scratches hair and wonders off
Study of the colours on my own hand in dim morning light. Tried to make them look more fleshy. Only way forward is practise…
NR43 - good start, nice organic shapes and good quality brushstrokes. Just keep throwing them out and be mindful of perspective.
SpiritDreamer: always a journey to watch you paint - you never know where you end. will be interesting to see how you approach the hands.
embryotic: Very nice. if you touch it up you could call it a finished piece.
FateBringer - nice proportions on your last one- it would probably look better on a darker background.
looking nice - lots of character in your hands. The third from right finger looks too thick to me.
Rebeccak: Like it, your last picture looks really lumiscent. Your paintings always look like finished illustrations to me
Agostinuke: very impressive modeling
sirielle: If it took a long time then it’s time worth spent you’ve caught the gesture really well.
Great work, everybody!
Well, I am taking this opportunity to get some much needed drawing practice, but I might throw in a couple of 3d studies as well at the end, if I have time left after the twentyfive 2d ones…
today’s hand:
from Michelangelo’s “Madonna and Child”.
