So I was just about to explain to some person how to draw hands... but um... I thought it would annoy them so I didn't. And of course I'm not a great artist when it comes to such details myself. Sometimes I just make a scribble for a hand. Or I simplify it. Which is fine... because I tried. I think a lot of it is the whole shoulder arm limb thing, you have to get the prepositions right.

So here we go we have a head on top the body, the head and neck are very nearly the same thing. And the neck rest on the shoulders which are on the same line as were the arms begin. So you can divide the arm into to parts the arm and the forearm. the division is made at the elbow which rests in the same level as the lowest rib in the rib cage.

But the thing that gets most people confused the the tip of the appendage the hand. Even I'm not really great at the whole hand drawing crap... but I know the science. Pretty much you have the wrist where the arm ends and the hand begins. It's a swiveling joint, that eternally is a set of small short bones called caples that are placed togather to create a malleable hinge. It connects to the palm of the hand. Only primates have hands, the palm of the hand is internally complicated with many tendons and muscles. These tendons control the fingers and thumbs. The palm is pretty much there is fit in these important strings. but than the hand externally and proportionally is what we care about.

First I'll start with the thumb, shorter and stouter than the other four digits. It begins much lower in the palm that the rest, and is about the length of the pinky, but ends around where the index finger begins. it only bends twice while the other four fingers can bend three times. It's purpose is to help us grasp material things... those aren't ideas or quantum physics.

The rest pretty much begin where the palm ends, digit ratio begins at the first crease or bend. The longest is the middle finger. The index and ring are about the same size... some might argue the the ring finger is a tiny bit longer... but that's not enough to count. The pinky is the shortest of the fingers, ending roughly at the final crease in the ring finger.

So that wasn't much help. You could have just looked at your hand. Well... um... keep in mind that the thumb is not a finger, it moves differently and is placed out of the side of the hand. the index tends to move more nimbly than the other three fingers, it's often separate from them... that of course is not a rule. The knuckles are where the fingers begin and should be thought of as part of the fingers more than part of the palm. Just keep in mind what a hand would look like without any flesh on it and you're of to a good start.

The skeleton is the foundation of the shape of the human body, you just add to that to make a picture of a person. There are rules... and I should probably start following them.