Whats up with hands?

The only way to get better at hands is to draw hands, books and online tutorials may give you a look to see how another person has solved the problem of simplifying hands, but until you solve it yourself.

1. Draw hands from a movie, I prefer Jackie Chan kung fu movies with the audio turned off so that I won't get sucked into the story. Watching the movie ONLY focusing on the hands, pausing it frequently to draw every single hand pose and angle and if it pauses while blurry, thats even better because then you have to about what the underlying hand could be doing.
This is really great because you get to see how a hand got to be in a certain pose and what the emotional state of the actor is!

2. Study artists renditions of hands, Toby Shelton is great place to start. He has several storyboard samples, I recommend going through and copying the hands from his storyboards, try to break them down and understand why this hand works for that specific character or action or emotion.

3. DRAW YOUR OWN HANDS, literally just fill up a sheet of your hands, I like to draw a page of small little thumbnail hands every morning to warm up.

The most important thing here is consistency draw hand every day, if you can't dedicate an hour a day, draw hands for 10 minutes a day, after doing that for a month you will notice a difference.

don't be lazy!

-Nicholas