Hi, I'm Danny Page, and I'm here on behalf
of Expert Village. In this series, I'm going
to teach you how to draw basic cartoon characters.
All right; next up on our character; hands.
Sadly to say; people are often intimidated
by drawing hands, and often times they will
attempt to cop out of having to do it; by
putting their characters in a situation where
they don't necessarily have to show their
hands; by hiding them in pockets, and things
like that. We're not going to shy away from
that, and you really shouldn't have to feel
intimidated by hands. What we're going to
do is just give our character here the basic
cartoon hand look. Now; just be very careful
as you're crafting these hands; start with
the thumb, and work your way out. We're going
to give this guy a standard wave, so we started
with the thumb; kind of gave it a little bit
of an indent here; then we're going to build
off of that. Just go over the hands like you
would; very careful detail. We're giving this
character a more realistic look, so most animators
would stop with the typical four fingered
hand. You see that on most Disney cartoon
characters, and the old school, and a lot
of cartoons in general. I don't know why they
do this, to me; it seems kind of silly, and
so, for us; we're going to give this guy a
full fingered hand, and give him a bit of
a palm there. So there he is; waving. I guess
hands can get a little bit complicated; depending
on what kind of a pose you do. Over here;
we can show what a hand with a fist might
look like. Instead; you might come inside
to ball up the hand, and bring the thumb across
the palm, and get the fingers all nice and
wrapped up; for a punch or something like
that. You see what I'm saying? There are lots
of different options; as far as hands go,
and you worry about the hand on a case by
case basis; depending on what the character
is doing in a particular drawing. Our character
is introducing himself, so he's going to be
waving. A cheesy little bit, but what are
you going to do; it's my drawing; deal. All
right; moving on.