From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
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Drawing hands: Details, touching hands, and fine points
From the course: Animation Foundations: Drawing Cartoon Characters
Drawing hands: Details, touching hands, and fine points
- Now let's take a look at some of the smaller elements that constitute a hand. And here we have little werewolf paw, and we have fingernails, and here we have a big claw, and then a more regular looking fingernail. We have the joints. We have the knuckle line. So let's take a closer peek at these. So here we have four hands, none of which has a knuckle line so let's look at different ways of drawing them. Now the first thing to remember is the physical structure. This isn't my final drawing by the way. This is just to show you the planes that we're dealing with. So we have one plane here for the edge of the fingers, and then this plane here is the top of the hand. So let's undo that and we will put our graphical representation in, or for that, nothing's stopping you from doing something simple like a straight line if you want to go with that route. But the knuckle line tends to be a little more interesting than that and so one way of doing it is to draw in like a little straight and…
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Understanding anatomy4m 4s
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An introduction to drawing eyes11m 31s
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Eyelids, eye blinks, and eyebrows6m 27s
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Drawing realistic eyes3m 23s
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Drawing cartoony mouths13m 57s
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Drawing realistic and stylized mouths6m 56s
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Drawing the nose8m 26s
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Drawing ears3m 37s
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Adding details to build character in a drawing5m 8s
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Drawing hands13m 5s
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Drawing hands: Details, touching hands, and fine points7m 10s
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Drawing hand styles6m 17s
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Feet9m 41s
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Hair and beards12m 34s
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Drawing clothes and flowing materials9m 19s
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Drawing animals15m 22s
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Drawing creatures6m 6s
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Drawing cartoon effects for animation7m 34s
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Drawing objects8m 51s
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