Woot! A hand tutorial! -Drools- I need to work on my hands...XD Thanks for sharing your techniques!!!

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I need all the help I can get! Yay! Nice one.

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Very nice and useful tutorial! I admit, I'm guilty of one or two of the aforementioned icky hand drawings, but this will be very useful to me when drawing. ^_^

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Wow. This is really helpful.

oh WOW, i am totally guilty of almost all those *embarrassed laugh*

I've gotten SO MUCH better though! Just you wait!!

Not saying that I'm never guilty of mistakes on my hands, but this is one that I happen to NOT be guilty of:

On the last mistake point-out, where you talk about where fingers stop, why you see that all the time is because that is supposed to denote the knuckle below the middle finger that can sometimes stick out, and the metacarpal bone can also be visible (predominantly in really skinny people).

It is supposed to be drawn on the middle finger, not the index, and it's not supposed to connect with the finger. Good job on pointing out the exact WRONG way to do it and telling people not to do it Shutting up now...

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I see. I kind of presumed that it was something like that, but I wasn't sure. I'm guessing that the reason people draw that detail so badly is because they're probably copying someone else's style, and thus they don't understand the purpose behind the detail. That's pretty much the tell-tale sign of a copycat; when they try using artifacts they clearly don't understand.

Just to test out your explanation, I took at look at my own hands and while they're not exactly skinny, I do see a subtle change in the light pattern below my middle nuckle. Now I know!

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Yep, you got it I can't see it in my hands at all because I have chubby hands, but I still understood the whole knuckle-sticking-out thing from looking at my own hand.

Copying other people's styles works sometimes, but it helps to know why things occur. Like, why tight clothes have horizontal folds and loose clothes have vertical folds is due to gravity, not because someone decided to draw them that way.

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Yay, this is really helpful! Thanks alot for putting this up!