Now many people can agree that drawing hands is very difficult but with the right techniques and practice it can be mastered. There are many tutorials on this and I am just going to provide some links and give you some tips on drawing hands. First off I recommend that you look at either your own hands or pics of others and study them very carefully. The first thing to mastering hands is to understand their structure just the way that you would with a building or a human body. The middle finger is the longest finger and the pinky and thumb are aproximently the same length as each other. Also the actually hand part that all the fingers connect onto is about the same length as the middle finger. The two fingers on either side of the middle finger are the same length but the pointer finger is placed slightly lower then the finger located on the opposite side of the middle finger. Also it's a good idea to imagine the hand as a shovel and that it is not square but gradually comes closer together as the fingers extend outward. When drawing the hand also be sure to mark the placements of the joints in the fingers. There are only two joints that are needed to be marked in each finger this includes the thumb. Also remember that finger nails do not cover the entire top part of the tip of the finger. The are where the four fingers connect to the top of the hand is curved. I will add more to this later on and maybe even draw up some example pictures but for now here are some links to tutorials that should help you some more.
http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/farp/hand/
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/hands/hands.htm
http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/hand2/hands.htm
It's ironic how one of the hardest things to draw is the thing that we use to draw with.
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