How can I use this resource?

With this resource, you can draw 3D illusions of your own hand in six different positions. You can use this resource to create stunning optical effects. You can also use this resource to learn about the art of implied forms, a technique that creates the illusion of depth and reality on a flat surface. This resource offers younger kids the opportunity to get familiar with pre-printed implied forms by simply coloring them in. Older children can follow the step-by-step instructions for drawing implied objects without a template and use their own hand as a template instead. 

What does this resource contain?

This resource contains 11 pages with six templates and instructions for drawing 3D illusions of your own hand. Each page has a different hand position that you can copy and modify. The templates show you how to draw the outline of your hand and add the stripes that create the 3D effect. 

About The Implied Hand

2D is the abbreviation for ‘two-dimensional’. Most 2D geometrical forms are flat surfaces. When a flat surface is given the third dimension - that is, depth - it becomes a 3D object. Then circles become spheres, squares become cubes, and triangles become pyramids. Such 3D objects can either be real objects or what we call ‘implied’. A hand, for example, is real because it really exists in three-dimensional space. If this hand is drawn on a sheet of paper, however, we say that the form is implied, since it’s only an illusion of three-dimensionality. To draw such three-dimensional forms on two-dimensional sheets of paper, artists have to use sophisticated light and shadow effects.

Download this resource and start drawing your own 3D illusions! You will have fun and learn how to draw amazing implied forms!