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nk-chan — mini hand tutorial
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Hope it's helpful! These are just the observations that helped me the most, and the ones that seem to get overlooked.This stuff should work in any style. :3
More information can be found in the drawings (and in the drawings linked to below) than in the writing alone. For example, look at how the fingernail affects the angle of the tip of the finger when viewed from the side. (See, it'd just be confusing to write about that kind of thing. orz;; )
EDIT:
That's how high MY thumb reaches when lying flat. Since I made this, it's come to my attention that my thumb is abnormally short! If I had been aware of this, I would have averaged the length for this tutorial. This is why it's important to combine tutorial learning with personal observation! Everyone observes things in slightly different ways no matter what, partly because natural organisms vary widely in shape and proportion.
Recommended tutorials:
If you're looking for a longer hand tutorial, `alexds1 has a great one with a lot of helpful illustrations and examples: alexds1.deviantart.com/art/Han…
And for a more advanced hand/arm reference, this tutorial by ~Snigom is fantastic: snigom.deviantart.com/art/Arms…
Some more hand drawings for reference and inspiration!:
by me: nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/som… nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/Wha… nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/han…
by other deviants: littleulvar.deviantart.com/art… mrpaul.deviantart.com/art/figu… nanya.deviantart.com/art/Giant… valentinmelik.deviantart.com/a… , postapocalypsia.deviantart.com… duss005.deviantart.com/art/Det… sorskc.deviantart.com/art/the-…
Sarah Simblet: img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… (From her awesome book Anatomy for the Artist)
Egon Schiele: img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… img.photobucket.com/albums/v34…
Araizumi Rui (Whose art I first learned to draw hands from): img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… img.photobucket.com/albums/v34… img.photobucket.com/albums/v34…
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Comments: 224
your hands are amazing! Thanks for sharing!
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This is amazing, not only for your advice, but the links to other artist's work. Many thanks!
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thanks for posting this it will realy help
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hands are a nightmare, i'm going to post this right in front of me when i give it another go! thanks.
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Oh God! My art teacher showed this in class last month xD
By the way, very nice
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Really? Wow, that's kind of an honor. ;w;
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this hand tutorial is really useful! so thank you! :3
the joint in the middle of my thumb reaches the base of my fingers xP
i've got spider hands, most complicated reference ever, ahaha
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what pretty hands ): ):
slender finger + swirlies = <3
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oh my , looking for some helpful hand tutorials 
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This is a very nice mini hand tutorial. I really like the details in the knuckles.
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O.O!!! My fingers do NOT curve inwards when bent! O.o One of em even curves WAY outward! ><''' Is there something wrong with them? XD
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Maybe. *A*;;
Wow, so many different types of hands I never knew about before I made this. orz;
It might be one of those vitamin deficiency things. o_O;
Or maybe it's the in-finger people who are weird..
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O.o It's highly possible. Maybe my bass did it! XD My dad always said I had perfect bass fingers. ^^ I play the upright bass >
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Ah, I see.
Apparently I have good piano fingers.
Maybe this is really a tutorial on how to draw piano fingers. XD;
I'll make a bass-finger one later.
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Wow...... My thumbs reach the middle joint of my index finger.
I have long thumbs. lol
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This will come in handy (pun not intended)
Now I won't have to use my own hands as references as much :v
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little, but very good tutorial :> other are ussually very general, but you included little details people tend to forget.
and fufufufu, my thumb is much longer than that }:> it almost reach middle joint of index finger 
It's nice tutorial, and very good drawing too. Definitly goes to my faves :>
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I have to say these Tutorials you have made are rather insightful and make human anatomy a little less scary. Thanks for taking the time to draw them for those of us who are still learning.
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I saw this on Gaia! Really helpful. : ]
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Very nice but have you noticed that the middel finger really is in the middel?
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Do you mean, like, when you include the thumb? I hadn't really thought of that, no. XD;
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These hands are lovely. They are very realistic
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you can't believe how much this has helped me! I always mess up one way or another with the hands and this helped me get the angles right so it looks amazing. Thank you very much!!
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I'm glad to hear it was so helpful! :3
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"Thumb reaches just above base of the fingers"
oh what?
Mine goes ALOT further... [link]
(Pardon my bony and deformed fingers, lol)
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I held my hand up to your picture for comparison, and while most of it fit rather well, my thumb only went to the base of your fingernail. XD;
Is your hand lying completely flat though? Because the reach of the thumb has a lot to do with the position of the hand. (Something I just realized I neglected to mention in this..)
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it was completely flat. tho, the positionin of the camera could've been better
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very useful! hands are always hard. Thnks!
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