Boned

Here's a technique I tried for getting the basic hand shape down. The idea is that the 'skeleton' of the hand is drawn in first, with positions for the knuckles and joints, before being fleshed out. It does work, but I think you do need a bit of experience of drawing to get this one to work, but then if you didn't have that, you wouldn't be drawing hands... would you?

Start with the square palm, then add the knuckles and thumb. Simply fill in the rest. Hmm...

I've gone over the basic shapes which I used to produce the drawing to make them a little clearer. I found that there was still an element of guess work with regards to the positioning of the knuckles and length of the fingers (which I'm still not convinced is correct; the top part of each finger looks a little short to me). It's worth remembering that each finger is essentially divided into three parts, and the middle finger is about the length of the palm. Which I didn't really pay attention to here. Sorry.

You can read more on this technique HERE but do come back, it will get easier, I promise!