From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing hand styles

Drawing hand styles

From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters

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Drawing hand styles

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- Here's a quick design idea, and this is to show you some stylized options for hands, that we're not just restricted to strictly anatomical ones, and in case you don't see the joke, these strokes are meant to be read as fingers, and there's the thumbs, and we have our scary guy in the background. Don't worry. We're not going to be drawing this. This is just a demonstration that we should always be imaginative about things, and maybe there's option that are going to be there for you to use props or other inanimate objects as hands. Let's take a look at some other styles. On the left we have a fairly cartoony version of the business that we've already been dealing with. But other fun ways that you can handle hands, that might make it easier for you if you're starting out, is this kind of very loose, rubbery style. It's a lot of fun. There's not that many straights. You can have a straight in there if you like. I really like doing this whenever I can get away with it. On the right side…

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