[gabereiser]

This was my first attempt at a realistic hand. I studied my own hand and drew from memory (checking every once in awhile of course). Not much but it's a start.

[waylon]

Not bad. The fingers look a little small, but that's nothing that wouldn't improve with practice.

One other little thing, you could probably go a lot lighter when defining the fingernails. In real life, the edges around them aren't very dark, and drawing them like you did makes them stand out a bit much. But that's just a little thing.

Just curious, how long did you spend on this? A good exercize for getting proportions right is to give yourself a very strict time limit... say five or ten minutes. That way you have no time to work on the details, just the basic form and proportions. And if at the end of the drawing you realized you messed something up, don't fix it! Just take note of what you did wrong and do it right the next time.

[Moose]

nice man! the hands are one of the hardest things to draw on the body. most people draw them too small. this looks nice. I do agree with waylon, those finger nails make him look like he/she has been working in a coal mine all day...

i do have but one major gripe...
you signature is not part of your art. it is very distracting here in this study. if that is how you want to sign your work, do it smaller. I care about the drawing, not how you sign your name.

are you planning on doing feet studies too?

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[EviLToYLeT]

Rofl. Feet studies Please no. hehe. Well anyway, nicely done. Just that the fingers are a bit small. And once again, don't outline everything in the same tone. Use the shadows and light to define volume and form. For example, since the light on the side of the pinky and the area near the thumb have the same lighting... if you cover everything else up and look at that part. they look connected.

[gabereiser]

thanks, yeah the fingers are a little small, I gave myself 30 minutes max to draw this, as for different contrast lines, I only got one pencil therefore it's kinda hard to get different tones out of it. The finder nails I did last, that's why they are darker, my pencil was sort of dull. as for the signature. The picture was kinda small in my book and the signature was the same size as all my other drawings, that's why it looks bigger.

[AliasMoze]

If you leave off the signature, I don't think anyone will steal your hand drawing and get rich off it.

It looks like you're drawing stereotype. That is, it looks like you're drawing what you THINK the hand looks like. For now, just draw what you SEE exactly as you see it. What's with the shading and especially the strokes in the background? Forget about that stuff for now. Look in your subject for places where shapes overlap. The areas should resemble a Y or T shape. Those are the things to chase after, because they describe the overlapping of forms.

[gabereiser]

what do you mean by "drawing stereotype"? I was drawing my hand as I saw it in the mirror. It's easy to draw your hand layed out on a table or a desk but I wanted the back end. As for the lines around the drawing, I put those there so that the drawing itself would standout ontop of the white paper. It is not relevant to the drawing only to capture the viewers attention to the subject.