loving the fat people

i’m going to go into this with the assumption that you are already comfortable drawing hands or know how to build a hand even if your end result isn’t as good as you’d like it to be

there’s a million and one “how to draw a hand” tutorials out there so please seek one out if you dunno what you’re doing for hands. i don’t wanna spend time explaining stuff that’s been explained a million times over

ready? okay

so you’re either drawing hand hands or paw hands, either’s fine, it’s more or less the same process of making either thinner or fatter

this is essentially my ‘default hand’, this is a hand with no other context. the reason why i’m saying this is because, when i vary the size of the hand, i start from the elbow and work my way down. the thicker the forearm is, the thicker the hand on the end is going to be (at least in my head/style/whatever).

as i’m making these hands bigger i’m also shifting the proportions. the bigger and clumsier the hand is, the shorter and stubbier the fingers are going to be to exaggerate that. you’ll notice this “hand hand” is rapidly approaching “paw hand” proportions - so what happens to a paw hand?

YOU CAN EITHER have the digits slowly seperate from one another as palm size increases, or, have them keep together. having them seperate will present a more dextrous character, keeping them together is less dextrous (and i typically reserve this for weight gain sequences rather than characters that just Are Fat)

now let’s look at the actual palms

HERE are all the ingredients you need for a Successfully Chubby Palm

you NEED the little foldy bits around the digits and edges. absolutely need them. it’s not a fat hand if there’s no wrinkly foldy bits. this works for feet, all of this works for feet but especially this.

if you want to go as far as “useless overstuffed blob”,

http://www.xtube.com/video-watch/Ohio-Quarry-Mud-Play-Part-1-24295761

Pre-shower chub