Introduction

Hi, I'm Christian, and in this tutorial you will learn how to draw hands with a simple technique that I specially created for you. I admit that drawing hands is one of the most complex things in drawing in general, I personally had to dedicate a whole notebook specially to drawing the hand in order to improve myself. Even some of the larger mangakas such as Masashi Kishimoto admit that it was not always easy.

 

Immediately let's move on to a technique that will allow you, using a simple outline, to draw hands.

Tutorial full video

Basic technique

Here nothing very complicated you draw a series of variable figures one after the other while keeping a certain coherence, as on the image

the middle line in red dotted indicates the position of the middle finger, but you do not have to follow it to the letter because it is primarily indicative

A simpler way to draw hands quickly is to draw a square, then attach a few sticks which will represent the fingers, as in the following image:

The simple 3D method

This method is based on 5 elements which are as follows:

• GREEN: this is the base of the hand

• RED: thumb

• PURPLE: the wrist

• YELLOW: the location of the other 4 fingers

• BLUE: forearm

 

DON'T run away, in practice it's easier than it seems, with a little practice you can save precious time

A particular method

Here is a little trick to draw a hand at rest seen from the back. To start drawing:

• IN RED: a hexagon of this type with all its peculiarities (the oblique line indicates the direction of the fingers from top to bottom and the horizontal line indicates the position of the thumb

• IN BLUE: the wrist

• PURPLE: the forearm

judge for yourself

Hand holding objects

To draw a hand holding an object you must have fun combining the methods seen above, it should go as illustrated in the following two images, we have 3D and a simple technique

result

Implementation

First we will sketch with the 3D method.

Then we put a "flat" color on the whole hand and we lock the layer ("lock the transparent pixels" in CLIP STUDIO PAINT)

In this tutorial, we will use the "grayscale" method to paint the hand, if you do not know this method, it does not matter it is not complicated a simple search on youtube will allow you to have more but that is not the purpose of this tutorial

Finally we add the rest of the details of the work, additional element, brightness, background color, etc ...

And this is the final result :)

I hope this tutorial will help more than one, don't forget to watch the full video and leave a comment if you have any questions ... Thanks :)