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How to Draw Hands and Shading

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This step-by-step tutorial teaches learners to construct realistic hands without a reference image and render skin, wrinkles, veins, and nails with pencil shading. It also covers variations such as skinny, chubby, feminine, masculine, and wrinkled hands.

Syllabus

Intro -
How to draw a basic hand:
Finger Length:
Placement for 2nd and 3rd joint:
How to draw a skinny hand:
How to draw a chubby hand:
Fingernails:
Construction of hand #2:
Shading techniques:
How to shade a wrinkly hand:
Joint wrinkles:
Wrist wrinkles:
Veins:
Where each shading technique was used:
How to shade nails:
How to draw a feminine vs masculine hand:
Artwork you guys sent me:

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