Learn How to Draw Female Hands!

If you understand the anatomy of the hand, there's no special secret to drawing female hands! Fortunately, this lesson on how to draw female hands will help help you out in creating perfect elegant hands of a lady!

Besides being smaller overall, the fingers attached to the female palm are slimmer and sharper near the ends. Long, oval, fingernails will add to this effect.

In addition, the delicateness of the female hand can be drawn by simply not adding too many details to your drawing.

That means less focus on the tendons and bone structure. At the same time, try focusing on creating round shapes rather than angular shapes of the hand in general.

Are you ready to get started?

1. The proportions

For you to focus on the proportions, the first drawing should be a simple forward view of the female hand.

That way, you can concentrate on the slender fingers and the oval fingernails. Notice that the thumb is almost as thin as some of the main fingers.

The tendons and knuckles are less visible than the male hand. With your brush, just lightly draw these features in place.

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On the reverse side, lightly draw the age lines and the bulge of the thumb. You can add more details here if you wish as there is very little difference between the male and female hand here.

Once you have a good idea of the female hand, you can begin experimenting different perspective sketches.

2. Concentrating on form

Getting to know the basic forms is essential. The first of which is the curvature of the palm and the wrist.

Most of the curves can be done simply by not adding in details. You want the flesh to be firm but soft at the same time.

Focus on the tips of the fingers whenever possible. Make sure the nails are oval while joining with the smaller tips of the fingers.

female hands

Even if the fingers are bent in a way that shows off course features like the knuckles, you still want to concentrate on the softness of the hands.

Again, try not to add too much detail in this step as it is just for you to get used to drawing the slim fingers and round curvatures of the palm.

3. Adding motion

Grace of movement is what you should try to capture here. Not only should the fingers bend a little, but you need to think about perspective and flow.

While drawing the fingers together, bend it in a way that follows a nice natural arc. Keep proportions at the back of your mind so the fingers line up correctly as well.

On the second drawing, you want to try drawing fingers that are independent from one another. For instance, have the pinky bend further up than the rest of the fingers.

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However, don't forget about flow either. Think of each bent in the finger part of an invisible string that moves the other fingers.

Draw guidelines to help you out and erase it later. It's easy with the digital art tools available to you.

4. The hand under force

Now that you have an idea of curvature, form, and proportions, you may want to draw female hands holding objects or resting on something.

When the hand is placed on a flat surface, the tips of the fingers and palms are what gets pushed or indented in.

How much you wish to indent in is up to you. However, make sure to follow through with what happens to the other parts of the hands when this happens.

For example, you can bend the fingers to create a small arch as the tips of the fingers push down on the flat surface.

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What about when you're holding an object? How does the individual fingers and thumb respond to the object?

In this instance, the fingers and palm curves alone with the main finger that holds the object because it simply is a natural movement to get the fingers close enough to each other to hold the object.

There are unlimited sketches that you can potentially do. Just practice a lot and it will become second nature!