How to Draw Anime Hands

The fact that in an anime drawing, face is the most important part can not be overruled. Other parts are normally ignored. The How to Draw Anime Hands How to Draw Anime Hands clothes are also given importance and certain characters need to show instant expressions with hands.

Hands are not that difficult or critical to draw like the face of an anime character. If anything comes second to the face in terms of importance, it is the body of the character and hands are used only to support the over all structure.

In typical Japanese anime, the hands are often used only to add to the expression of the character.

After you get ready with your drawing tools like sharp pencils, drawing papers, erasers, rulers and color pens and glitters, the first thing you need to know is how many parts an anime hand has. The anime hand like any other hand includes, the palm, the fingers and nails.

Here are a few simple steps that you can use to draw anime hands with ease.

The palm is attached to the wrist and is of rectangular shape with curved ends. Draw a rectangular shape that is somewhat narrowed towards the wrist. It can take the shape of the base of a spatula. Add two lines that run parallel to each other and are narrowed at the wrist but are move slightly apart as it moves up.
The next action is to draw fingers. If you look carefully, fingers have three small parts called knuckles that are not equal in shape or size. The bottom part of the finger is fatter and narrows down towards the end or the nails. So draw the four fingers. Note that the middle finger is slightly longer than the rest of the finger. Similarly the last finger is smaller than the rest.
Fingers have nails that are similar to the letter ‘U’ only upside down. The nails have the u shape that fits well with the bottom of the finer and a lighter line separates it at the bottom. Add the thumb at the middle space between the wrist and the index finger.
You can complete your hands by sharpening the lines and using a darker pencil. And you can also add some glitter to the nails, in case you are drawing a female anime hand.

Tips: Note that the hands shape and size differ slightly in shape and size for female and male character.