I find hands difficult to draw, however, because the character I have created pays homage to the styles of classic characters, he has gloves on similar to old Warner bros and Disney characters. Having cartoon characters wear gloves goes back to when cartoons were black and white, and animators had to make characters hands show up more easily, plus gloves were fashionable back then. I have previously tried to draw hands as you can see below, however I wanted to try and do a hand-study for characters which I personally really like, the Warner Bros; from Animaniacs.
As previously stated, the Warner Bros pay homage to vintage rubber hose characters with their black and white bodies and gloves, however are thrown into a modern world. Making them the perfect candidates to base Max the Cats hands on. The Animaniacs' hands are interesting, as they are very expressive, as well as fairly elongated when straight. They only have four fingers like other classic cartoon characters of vintage times, and personally I think the hand study went really well, as you can see below:
The more I drew the hands, the more confident I began to be, so after a good few attempts I tried to draw the hands faster, using a stop watch I timed myself and limited myself to 20 seconds per hand. I wanted to see if the quality could stay the same while rushing, as well as try to match the style, below is the result:
Overall I am happy with the outcome and I feel that my hand drawing skills have improved greatly, I will continue to draw hands as it is something that I feel could be improved.
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