You can find a copy of Preston Blair's famous sheet of cartoon hands here and here. Copying them is great practice. Still, use other cartoon and photo references, make up your own, and draw your own hands too!
The toon gloved hand comes from the black and white cartoons. Hands and faces had to be white to show expression more especially in the age before voice acting.So it works like a mime to accentuate gesture and mood. Just fyi XD
The toon gloved hand comes from the black and white cartoons. Hands and faces had to be white to sho
Makes sense to me. It's the same reason they used white (or green) makeup on human actors. I was just looking at some pictures of Francis X. Bushman in makeup in a local history book. He looked kind of freaky next to some non-made-up children.
Makes sense to me. It's the same reason they used white (or green) makeup on human actors. I was j
In one cartoon film "The Barber of Seville" Bugs has 4-finger hands in the long shots, but in a close-up where he's massaging Elmer Fudd's scalp, his hands have 5 (five) fingers.
In one cartoon film "The Barber of Seville" Bugs has 4-finger hands in the long shots, but in a clos