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How to Draw Hands: 35 Tutorials, How-To’s, Step-by-Steps,Videos, Studies, Poses and Photo References

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I’ve found drawing hands one of the most challenging aspects of drawing the human figure. You can getaway with quite a bit when rendering the human figure, but get the hand wrong and it sticks out like a sore

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thumb. Once you start learning about the hand in greater depth, you’ll find it is truly amazing just howcomplex the hand is even though we see it everyday. Perhaps the following tutorials can help you and Idraw better hands. Enjoy.

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Tutorials, How-To’s and Step-by-Step’s

It’s often useful to have a step-by-step guide, tutorial, or “recipe” on how to accomplish a certain task. I’ve found that following steps is good to grasp basic concepts before going on to experiment and expandone’s understanding. Tutorials on drawing hands are no different, and the tutorials and how-to’s listedbelow should be a good starting point.

J. Peffer created some nice step-by-steps for about a handful of hand poses.


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Nice little tutorial by Ron Lemen.


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Tom Richmond’s site is a must-go for any aspiring cartoonist and caricaturist and has a wealth ofinformation.

Joumana Medlev has a superb introduction on the anatomy of hands on DeviantArt; also check out herwork on cedarseed.com.

Quick hands and feet tutorial on Scribd by unknown author.


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This tutorial is a bit different in that it’s more focused on how to draw using a graphic tablet as opposed toa hand per se. Nonetheless, it’s never bad to learn two things at once, so check out Whyball’s “How toDraw a Classic Hand using a Graphics Tablet” over on GoMediaZine.

Short and sweet hand drawing tut by uchuucacahuate on deviantart.


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(Very) short but good tutorial by nk-chan on deviantart.com.


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Excellent hand tutorial by alexds1 on deviantart.com – I really wish I could executive cartoon hands likethat!


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Good step-by-step tutorial by vashs-angel on deviantart.com: simple illustrations and descriptive text.Back to top

Videos

Often it’s helpful to see someone else do something, not just in pictures, but in real-time. Here are somevideos that show hands being drawn:


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For you all you manga heads out there, you wanna go check out Mark Crilley’s channel on YouTube onhow to draw manga. Among those the video above on how to draw a hand holding a sword and how tojust draw a hand.


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Nice demonstration on how to draw a hand by cattusOK on YouTube.

Here we have another tutorial on how to draw female hands, also executed in Photoshop, viaWonderHowTo.Back to top

Anatomy

As one of the more complex instruments of the body, a sound understanding of underlying anatomy ofhands can help considerably when trying to render realistic and convincing hands in your drawings. Below are resources that should help you begin to understand how hands truly work.


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The Wikimedia Commons continues to be a great place to find reference material, such as the handanatomy plate from Gray’s Anatomy of the Human Body pictured above.


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Drawing and Anatomy by Victor Perard has pretty in depth coverage of human anatomy even though thedrawings aren’t the best I’ve seen. Nonetheless, very useful for the artist seeking to deepen theirunderstanding of anatomy.


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A more comprehensive discussion on drawing hands and feet which (I believe) originated on WetCanvasby JayD and then ended up on document form on Scribd.

Great mini-tutorial on hands by T. Arthur Smith on DeviantArt, looking to go beyond a tutorial on simplythe idealized form of the hand.


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I’ve mentioned him before in the post on skulls, and I’ll mention him again here: check out MichaelHensley for some great anatomical drawings with a distinctive style.Back to top

Books


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Perhaps the ultimate “tutorial” on drawing hands, “Drawing Dynamic Hands” by Burne Hogarth is amust-have reference book in your library. You can buy it here on Amazon.


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Mr. Hogarth has more hand material in that most amazing work, Dynamic Anatomy. You can buy it hereon Amazon.


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Thankfully there’s a copy of “Drawing Head and Hands” over at Scribd, by that other master of drawing,Andrew Loomis. The section on drawing hands isn’t as comprehensive as that on heads, but a greatresource nonetheless, especially when trying to draw non-male hands (female, baby, etc.).


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George Bridgman is the author of yet another treasure of a book on drawing. Above you can see a platefrom his the chapter on hands in the book Constructive Anatomy, available at the Internet Archive (orhere via Scribd).Back to top

Poses

Here’s a list of resources that display hands from many different angles. It’s truly remarkable just howmany poses the hand can be seen in.


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Useful collection of hand poses by Chrissy Fellmeth.


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More hand poses by what-i-do-is-secret on deviantart.com.


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A nice little collection of female hand poses by artrush73′s hub page.


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Mickey Mouse Hand Model Sheet by Les Clark

The ASIFA-Hollywood Animation Archive has some true gems when it comes to old drawings, such asthis hand model sheet of Mickey Mouse by Les Clark from 1932. Lot of other great stuff too, check itout. Found via this post on Animopus.

Another hand model sheet can be found on the Ultimate Iron Giant website, this one in particular being ofHogarth’s hand. There’re literally a ton of other drawings on sketches related to the Iron Giant, you’llfind the hands in about the middle of the page.


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Nice little reference on drawing animal hands/paws provided by Kelly on drawfurry.com.


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Great study of the hand in its many incarnations – love the minimal style here. By jimmymcwicked ondeviantart.com.Back to top

Photo References

Although you’ve got a pair for easy reference, it can help to look at a photo of a real hand, especially forawkward angles. Here are a few sites that should give you ample hand pose pictures for hours ofhand-drawing fun.


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Nice collection of hand poses taken by Thomas A of Ander’s hands, via elfwood.com.


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This site is certainly something out of the ordinary: Hands for Drawing by Pose Maniacs allows you selectvarious hand poses and then turn them in 3D (select one of the numbers in the right-hand menu). Greatwhen you can’t find a proper reference at just the right angle.


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Nice collection of both male and female hands in various interesting poses.

Female left hands by WindsweptSummer on deviantart.com.


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Hand holding pencil by dragyourstock on deviantart.com.

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Comments

These are all quite helful but if you can believe it, the one I needed was not among them! Lookingfor a side view facing right, person looking up at a star (for a Christmas card) with left hand up atforhead as if looking afar at a star. It’s a very odd sort of foreshortened wierd turn of the wrist andhand pose. If I don’t find it, I’ll try using a mirror to reverse my own hand image. Thanks for anyinput!

Kindest regards,Debbie

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Debbie

Hey Debbie, I’d try a camera with a self-timer, try experimenting with that. Good luck

Wednesday, November 11th, 2009Lee

This is so helpful and very nice. Thank you

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Autumn White Wolf

Great job, this is a wonderful resource! I have two step by step hand videos (so far) on my websitehttp://merrillk.com

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and

Peace Sign- http://merrillk.com/index.php?part=fineart&articles_id=6556&act=artist1&artist=69&collection=114

Thank you for creating this great blog!-Merrill

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Merrill Kazanjian

dude ur relly good with the hands. ok i’m a drawer that does comics (page by page not box by boxnot that good yet) so um i do demons and creatures i don’t have a camera so i can’t look at it on onei normaly teach myself but i need help in this area u mind doing a demonic pained hand lookin likeits grabing some ones head or clawing a desk i hope i’m not asking to much ^_ ̂p.s. btw do u alsodraw feet

Thursday, May 6th, 2010Robert aka Wolf

nice very good

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Brilliant!

This will keep me busy drawing hands for a while.

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Thank you for taking time making this great tutorial and references,.

Monday, January 17th, 2011Troels

Thanks so much for this! This page has helped me so much!

Sunday, January 23rd, 2011Angel

Thank you for this tutorial!

Sunday, January 30th, 2011Etnia

Thanks for all the kind words, and thanks for checking out Drawn in Black! – Lee

Sunday, January 30th, 2011Lee

thanks a lot its very helpfull and creative …..

Sunday, February 13th, 2011diala

thanks a lot.It was very helpful

Tuesday, March 29th, 2011art amator

You guys saved my life !!!

Sunday, May 1st, 2011Natu

You guys saved my life!!!

Sunday, May 1st, 2011Natu

I remember when I was about 7 or so. My Art teacher told me to draw my hand(left hand), so idrew what i saw. All the lines, as much detail as i could. When i was done, it looked like a hand nota “turkey” hand…She was impressed, as I too. So draw what you can see!

Monday, May 2nd, 2011RKM

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