God I wish I was a nameless, memoriless corpse resurrected and found by a tiny space robot in a centuries old rusting cosmodrome, brought back to fight the evils that threaten humanity
But seriously they're my weakest drawing point, do you have any advice on how I can get better at hands?
ahh well obviously other than just looking at refs and drawing them a lot (like honestly, filling a sketchbook page with just loose sketches of hands is a great way to learn, I love to do it), some notes that I found/learned/developed that have helped me have been:
I start with a soft rectangle shape as a base, it can bend and squish depending on what the hand is doing, but it's a nice anchor point and can help you guage how big or small the hand will be before adding details.
As far as fingers, keeping in mind that they connect to the palm more like wiggly fence posts rather than tight spokes on a wheel really helped with making them seem less stiff/limited. The thumb gets it's own little party, connecting to the palm in a shape that goes halfway-ish to the middle of the palm, creating a kind of palm butt if you will, and I use that shape to better define the parts of the hand. And in the third drawing there I show how I often group the middle two fingers together - it's not really accurate to life, but it's an artistic liberty that I've found helps simplify things when I'm trying to arrange fingers.
There's a lot more than goes into it all, but there are so so many resources and tutorials out there, everyone's said it all before, and probably better than I could. These are just a few key things that really helped me start to enjoy drawing hands! If you're stumped, references honestly really do help, and sometimes they'll just look weird or wrong but that's okay! Just keep at it, don't be scared, because the more you do it the more confident you'll get!
I noticed when I was a kid that adults seem to forget that everything is real, no matter how young you are. A seven year old doesn’t feel like a helpless infant, they feel the oldest and most mature they’ve ever felt. And they will when they turn eight, too. And nine. Twenty. Thirty. Fifty.
You never feel as young as you are, because you’re always the oldest you’ve been. You can only look back and equate childhood with ignorance and silliness, because there were things you didn’t know then. But there are things you don’t know now, too, that someone older is looking down at you for.
I promised myself I would never forget that, growing up. I put it in a time capsule when I was nine because I wanted to be certain. And sometimes it slips away, and I catch myself scoffing at people younger than me, but you have to fight that. You have to hold on. You have to keep a little bit of your younger mind inside you, so you don’t forget.
I think that’s important.
Remember that you’ll always change, but know that the person you’ll become isn’t going to be any more real than the person you are, or the person you were. They’re still going to feel like You.