How to Draw Hands for Character Design and Illustration

So you want to draw hands for your character illustrations and... Dang! It's hard. But there are easy ways to look at a difficult problem.
Creating characters is not about accurate life drawing as a serious Artist - (capital A!).
Many characters only ever need one or two hand-shapes for a whole book or series. Practice those hands and you can soon be drawing them easily. Even more complicated characters only ever need a small library of hand positions, so concentrate on learning those.
@rashidrafsan6117 has asked me - "can you make a video about drawing hands and heads.. I really love your art style.. I am struggling to come up with new character ideas and drawing hands."
Hands are notoriously difficult to draw. They are so versatile, can take up an infinite number of positions and can be viewed from every angle too.
You really need to study hands and draw lots of them, but take heart. Characters are not primarily about art but about telling a story. Make that compelling and you can "get away" with learning to draw only a few hand positions and then learn new ones if you absolutely have to.
In this video I discuss hands drawn by great children's book illustrators and then show basic hand construction and how you can learn draw your own hands quite quickly. There are amazon links to the books below. I get an affiliate fee, but you pay no more.
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00:00:00 How great illustrators draw hands
00:01:11 Little Horrors amzn.to/3Hjt0Oq
00:01:30 Literary Life amzn.to/47CUcm2
00:02:01 Julius Baby of the World amzn.to/3vGyEaQ
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00:06:06 Flower Fairies. amzn.to/47CtgCL
00:07:12 Drawing Hands - construction
00:09:31 Drawing Hands - style
00:11:33 Conclusions - hands for characters

[@melaniedickson5713]

I'm so happy to see you have a new video! I was worried after your announcement around New Year. You are fun to watch, of course a great artist & very inspiring to someone who wants to illustrate the stories she made up for her kids when they were small. Thanks for the helpful demo & info about drawing hands!

[@shooraynerdrawing]

Thanks - and happy New Year to you!

[@zoehilger1462]

So happy to have a new video❤ the community you have built on this channel still loves you!

[@cindyenglert.az51]

Thank you Shoo- I always learn something watching your videos!

[@shooraynerdrawing]

Thanks, Cindy 😀

[@sallen1231]

Thanks for this - yes hands are hard, and often frustrating, but your video helps me feel like drawing them is within my reach.

[@shooraynerdrawing]

That's great to hear! keep at it!

[@AmberAmber]

TY Shoo!❤

[@rashidrafsan6117]

Thank you mr rayner..it helped me a lot ❤️

[@shooraynerdrawing]

You're welcome 😊

[@mohammadaibek4144]

Always struggled with hands so this video was very useful 😂

[@shooraynerdrawing]

That's great to hear!

[@g.allencook1051]

This video is very handy. 😁

[@shooraynerdrawing]

🤦doh! 😆

[@g.allencook1051]

@@shooraynerdrawing You will never know how long I sat here asking myself, "Do I really post it?" lol

[@shooraynerdrawing]

lol! 😆

[@Cat_with-threatening-aura]

Can ya make some fighter aircraft like the f15 and f14 please?