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hermione-baggins [2019-02-05 14:41:22 +0000 UTC]

Hey there, found your work through :devprojectcomment:

First of all, this is very nice. The lighting and the high contrast really fits in there. The anatomy of the hand is alright, especially the fingers are looking great! To me it seems like the wrist is a bit off, I think it's a little too crooked. You can improve that by using different references (stock photos or photos of your or somebody elses hand). As I said, the shading is really nice, it makes the hand look very three dimensional. The one thing that you could maybe improve is the shadow itself. You can see exactly where you put the pencil. If that was what you're going for, that's alright of course! But to achieve a more realistic look, you can try to blend the shadows and create another structure inside, because shadows aren't always one colour, there's different levels of darkness in there. You already created some kind of structure through the direction of the pencils strokes, that's very nice but I still think you can maybe leave some spots a little lighter than others. Also you did a bold outline around the whole hand. You could maybe try to get different levels of darkness there too, because you usually don't really see the 'edge' of the hand on the side where the light is coming from. These are all tips for achieving a more realistic look on this, if you don't want that, then don't listen to me And the last thing that could perhaps be improved is that you outlined the hand without outlining the thumb for example. If you use these kind of lines I think it's better if you not only do the lines all the way outside, but also the lines within the hand, like the sides of the thumb. It also makes it look more realistic and a lot more threedimensional.  
So in conclusion, it is a really nice study, you did a great job! And these are just recommendations, if you want to make it more realistic
Awesome work!

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