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omg dont be ashamed at all!! Hands are generally tough to get used to, lots of artists struggle with it! so dont be ashamed i feel you.

and I actually have made a hand anatomy guide before in fact! If you want to get better at drawing hands I def recommend you learn the basic anatomy first. Please check out the ones I made, I try to make it simple and easy to understand:

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 1

Artistic Anatomy: Hands Part 2

There’s my guide to the anatomy, but here’s some more tips that I’ve noted to myself that I’d like to include

First off, I’d like to just note on the fingers: if you pay close attention to your own hand, you may notice the fingers are ever ever so slightly curved inward. It’s a very subtle detail, but I noticed that, despite how slight it is, it can make a hand look more lively, and less stiff.

Second, the “M” on the palm! Your hand moves in many ways, and because it does it creates creases in your hand. The most prominent creases appear to make an M shape; this is handy to remember for what I’m going to talk about next. (It also could be a “W” I guess, or to be more specific a “ )X( “; just think of it in whatever way helps you remember!)

SO now that you see the M, draw your hand as a basic blocked shape and add your details. As you do, you can see that the M divides the palm into four basic parts!

When the hand moves, parts A, B, or C of the palm, alone or in different combos, will create the general poses that the hands do normally. These parts are the parts that move, with D being stationary, no matter what!

Here’s a chart of all the possible combos. Once you have down what part of the hand moves for a certain pose, you can change up the fingers and tweak it a bit to do what you need to make it more specific!

This is simply my method of drawing hands. God knows there are hundreds of tutorials out there by other artists, but personally, this way helps me the best (after learning the anatomy first). 

This way I can divide the hand and combine the parts in any such way I need! 

Hands take a lot of effort to grapple, and you need to practice them a lot, especially foreshortening of the hand; that’s really something you need to learn through your own studies. Look at your own hands, draw hands from life, from magazines, shows, comics; just draw hands! You’ll eventually figure out a method that works best for you. So to get better at drawing hands; draw hands!! And don’t stress over it, have fun with it!

Murder husbands?

Great

Ineffable husbands?

Great too

but what about-

MATELOTS HUSBANDS??

LIKE, GREAT- RIGHT? IT ACTUALLY HAS HISTORICAL SH*T BEHIND-

two snippets from the funniest enemies to lovers fanfic ever that my wife is writing

“fight me, princess” (comedy rewrite & expansion on the end of tangled S3) 👇

That’s a pretty broad question but I’ll try to give some pointers! 

I tend to make heavy use of clipping masks when first establishing a painting to avoid it turning into a confusing mess. I start by “masking out” (coloring in) the subject and then creating clipping masks on top which basically allows you to only color inside the subject and nowhere else. To create a clipping mask, just right click on a layer and choose “create clipping mask”. You can mask out other elements as well, in the golden retriever painting I masked out the lighting on the dog with some large brushstrokes (3rd pic on the process shots below) and then added different hues to it on a clipping mask. 

Beyond that, it’s just a matter of using a decently large brush and making confident brushstrokes. Lower the flow setting instead of opacity if you need a softer brush. And if you need a sharp edge, don’t be afraid to get in there with a hard brush and make it happen.