Anime Hand Styles

Anime Hand Styles

This tutorial illustrates how to draw anime and manga hands in indifferent positions and from different views with eight examples in total (four step by step).

Hands can be a difficult and confusing part of the body to draw even in the less detailed anime/manga style. To help this tutorial provides simple drawing examples along with an explanations of the structure of the hand. It shows the placement of the joints and gives a basic breakdown of the proportions.

How

Unless drawing digitally it’s recommended that you start the tutorial in pencil as there will be some overlapping lines that will need to be erased in between the different steps. Also try and keep your initial lines light to make erasing easier. You can darken them once you have all of the major parts of the hand drawn out.

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Please note that the breakdown of the drawing process is only shown for one view of each of the pose as pretty much the same or simpler method can be used for the other views.

If you are a beginner then you should practice by first drawing the hand with the palm open and fingers extended to get an idea of the proportions. You can also look at photographs other drawings or at your own hands for reference.

First draw the rough shape of the palm. Next draw a rough outline of the base of the thumb. The palm should of course be the larger of the two shapes.

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Study the proportions of the fingers. In the first example the lines shows their general direction and bends for this particular pose. The second set lines shows the position of the joins (where the lines overlap) and the end of the fingertips (last curved line).

The middle finger and the palm should be close in length. The tip of the thumb if drawn close to a 45 degree angle to the hand should roughly reach to the knuckle bone of the index finger.

Each finger consist of three parts with the distance from the knuckle to the first join being the longest and the distance from the last join to the tip being the shortest.

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The first joint of the thumb is actually near the base of the palm and is nearly invisible. The first visible joint is actually the second.

When outlining the fingers the middle one should generally be the longest and thickest. The index and ring finger should be slightly shorter and the little finger should be the shortest and thinnest.

Once you have the fingers outlined any extra lines form the previous steps and add a little bit of the hand to the base of the palm. Next you can draw some of the wrinkles along the palm, fingers and thumb. The fingers will generally have these along their base as well as along the second and third joint. The thumb at the third join. You can also draw a few lines along the palm as shown above.

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Draw the overall shape of the hand without the thumb or fingers and draw the shape of the base of the thumb after.

To help you better understand the positions of the fingers each one will be fully drawn out  in the examples (even the parts that are hidden). You do not need to do this but it is something to keep in mind as it can help you avoid mistakes when drawing the parts that are visible. For example if you can only see the tip of the little finger but you don’t consider the length of the rest of it you can end up drawing that part too far up or down the hand.

Clean up the drawing and add the fingernails followed by the smaller details such as the wrinkles on the fingers and thumb.

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This position of the hand would be used for something like holding a grocery bag. It’s close to a fist but not quite the same.

Draw the overall shape of the whole hand in this position. Next draw the shape of the side view of the palm.

Draw the overall shape of the fingers and then get the proportions for the little finger (as it’s the one in the front).

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If you need a better understanding of how to draw the rest of the fingers (following the pink) in this view you can use the same method as in Steps 2 – 3 of the previous example.

Draw the shape of the base of the thumb. You can see the placement of it’s joints for this particular pose shown in the example.

Draw out the rest of the thumb. Draw the fingers slightly thicker than normal (squeezed) to show that the fist is clenched. Also be aware that in a clenched fist the fingers fan out slightly in a direction away from the base of the thumb.

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In this particular view the location of the knuckles is not very important but the position of the other finger joints is shown above.

Add a little bit of the arm at the base of the palm and clean up any excess lines. You can then add the small folds and wrinkles.

Anime male and female hands are often very similar. However, when drawing close ups there are a few differences. Female hands are usually more slender and curvy with long fingernails. Male hands are usually bigger in comparison.

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When drawing hands anime hands you don’t always need to include all of the details. Sometimes a basic outline of the main feature of the hand is enough. For example if you are drawing a character that is in the background you don’t need to draw the fingernails.

It takes a lot of practice to be able to draw properly structured hands in different views. Depending on your skill level as an artist your drawings may not come out the way you like at first but don’t get discouraged, hands are difficult to draw. If you do it on a regular basis you can improve.To be honest, just drawing hands alone is as complicated as drawing heads and figures.  There's a LOT to drawing hands.  However, you can get away with not going too in depth with hands when you're cartooning.  Depending on how cartoony you're drawing.

How

When it comes to basic cartoon hands, they can be drawn in just about any abstract way that you can think of.  As long as they can be clearly understood to represent hands.

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I could have called this The Mitten Hands because that's the core of what I'm going to show you here but Hand Burger and Sausage made me laugh.

This is a very traditional form of drawing hands.  It's really the way I drew hands for many many years. It's really a very simple formula.

The trick to giving these hands a feeling of dimension,  is to think about these these forms as if they are burgers patties and sausages.  The palm area of the hand should be thought of as a slightly flat disk shape similar to a fat burger patty:

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If you want the hands you draw to be a little less cartoony and a bit more natural, it's best to get boxy.   It's still helpful to first draw a mitten shape. But instead of drawing the palm like a burger patty and the fingers like sausages, you turn the palm into a flat box and the fingers like long boxes.

This is helpful when drawing fingers because, if you notice, when you bend your fingers, the top of the fingers seem very boxy. This makes your finger drawing more believable.

No, finger aren't boxes, but if you want them to look more natural, after you draw them boxy, then simply round the corner on the bottom half.  And there you go...

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The thumb is a unique part of the hand.  You have to draw it as if it's on a special hinge on the palm cover in skin:

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As I've said before, drawing hands if very complicated.  What I've explained above is merely two approaches that simplify the hand.  However, there's a lost of other factors to be aware of when drawing hands. Below I go over some things to tips that will make you're hand drawings a tad easier and  look better:

Be aware that fingers aren't the same size.  This may seem obvious but when drawing hands in elaborate positions, this little awareness is one of the first things to go.

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One of the reasons to draw a mitten shape is to force the size of the fingers to get smaller on the ends.  However, you also need to follow this same curve on the joints of all the fingers and the top of the palm.

One thing you may not notice until you actually take a very close look is that the knuckles and the top webbing of the palm don't line up:

Why is this important? Because when you're drawing the back of the hand in any position, you don't want to draw the knuckles too high up or you'll lose the padding of the upper palm. Especially when you're drawing the hand bending:

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