I'm useless at drawing hands, they are the most annoying part of the anatomy to sketch.
Most of the time I get around this by copying a hand pose from a dvd framegrab or from one of the comics, but its very boring, and sometimes I can't find the right position or angle.

So, how do you draw hands? I'm interested in what techniques you use to structure hands, how you sketch hands at an angle with complex finger positions, and just anything that makes drawing them less of a pain.

Thanks in advance  .

Ahh yes hands. They really are a real bitch to draw (feet are also a problem I find). First i suggest this place http://www.polykarbon.com/tutorials/index.htm

they have generally go tutorials all around and quite good ones on hands.

Also observation is always a good tool. Look at your own hands and see what shapes you can makes with them.

And the most important thing is practice, I have been trying to draw hands for years and I still am not satisfied with the way they look.

Anywya good luck with it.

*l* I suck at drawing hands  and I really want to get better at it as well, so today I spent a long time having my hand in many different positions and just drew my hand. Still hard, though. Need more practice.

And yeah, feet are even worse, they usually look like paws to me when I draw them :S eep.

Cheers Femjesse! Thats just what I was after, especially the structure of the wrist, I could never get the lower palm to look right.

And thanks for the link wukong_uk, thats the best tutorial I've seen on the net, usually they advise constructing the hand by drawing a 'mitten' shape (which doesn't really help with finger detail), or creating the hand through a complex series of rectangles (too rigid for my style).

I'll pin up both guides by my desk and get sketching, hopefully by the weekend I'll be a pro!

I worked out how to do hands.
Heres a guide to how Ido them

 

Originally posted by blackkatnorn:
Rs, The only problem with that is our body has joints, I did a quick chart...

In your fingers, all the bones would be broken.

Heres a photo I did to test out hands. I just kept looking down at my hands.

I do it that way to get it visaully correct in Groening style