In this tutorial, we’ll take on the dreaded foreshortened finger (in this case, the pointer). The hand is often considered the most difficult of all subjects to draw, partly because we so often see the fingers from angles that conflict with our mental shorthand of them as tube-shaped.
Through the magic of right-brained seeing, though, the foreshortened finger becomes fairly easy to draw because it’s seen as a shape like any other shape.
In fact, it occurs to me that the much-feared foreshortened finger may actually be the best tool to help shift you to right-brained seeing. Its shape is so alien to our standardized image of “finger” that we have no other choice than to abstract how we see it. Look at the schematic below to illustrate this (with continuing apologies for my blue smashed fingernail).