How to Draw Cartoon Hands (Comic, Cartoon, and Mickey Mouse)

All of my hand lessons so far have covered how to draw realistic hands. I’ve broken down the anatomy and details of the hands and have shown you examples on how to invent them from imagination. But what if you only want to draw simple hands? Is there an easier method for drawing them? Well, cartoons are just exaggerations of reality. To exaggerate the hand, you have to know the hand. So while this lesson helps simplify the hands for you, it’s important for you watch the other lessons to understand the hands.

PREVIOUS LESSONS:

Part 1 - Muscle Anatomy of the Hand

Part 2 - Details for Realistic Hands!

Part 3 - Drawing Hands from Imagination

Demos - Tips on Shading and Drawing Hands

Demos - How to Draw a Fist

Demos - How to Draw Cartoon Hands

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CREDITS:

Featured Art - Disney’s Mickey Mouse, Pinnochio, The Goofy Movie, Toby Shelton, Futurama, Kids Next Door, Sonic the Hedgehog, Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, Glen Keane, Battle Chasers, The Emporer’s New Groove, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Moana, Wreck it Ralph, The Sword in the Stone, Loony Tunes, The Iron Giant, How to Train your Dragon, Superman, Dragon Ball Z, Deadpool, Prez, Calvin and Hobbes, Cowboy Bebop, Akira, Fiona Staples

Voice Actors - Marshall Vandruff
Models - Marshall Vandruff

Music Used with Permission
Intro - The Freak Fandango Orchestra
"Ain't No Friend of Mine" by Bryan Teoh
A Minor Jazz by Brett Van Donsel is licensed under a Creative Commons License.
"Jazzy Frenchy" by Bensound

#DrawingHands #CartoonHands #HowToDraw

[ProkoTV]

Which cartoon/comic character has the best hands?

[chilidog]

6:46 (When you draw the hands just right)

[novapariah]

The "comic book" style you showed in this video really reminds me of the Gorillaz artstyle.

[Tycini]

7:24 The art that was killed, and then anime took over.

[shaunlee]

10 years of art school and I still struggled with hands but 10 mins with this video and I've finally got it ! Thank you

[celestethoms]

Thanks for this. Your anatomy courses are the best, but no one teaches how to simplify detailed anatomy into a more cartoon form. Even though this is just the hands I learned a lot I can take into other parts of the body, and I hope you do more like this in the future. Thanks again!

[timowthie]

thanks for the HANDout. it's really handy.

[AndreAlessiCastro]

7:25 the sword in the stone had such an amazing style. A gold mine of reference is the best way to describe it

[romulopabilonia]

And my friends still dont get my drawing gestures and style of drawing they say


*ThaT hAs A bIG hEaD anD bIG eYes AnD bIG hANDs*

[ojingoh]

Lmao when I saw the thumbnail I thought this was a draw with jazz’s video. Great job making this!

[Launchpad]

The 'fart joke' almost ruined the experience for me.

[ReemCamargoSp]

Hi Stan, at first hand I would like to thank you for all this videos. I have been sudyng most of your video lessons as well in various Anatomy books for artists and I havent found any detailed information about lower limbs or pelvic muscles yet. I would love to see videos that adress to that second half of the body as well as feet with all that exmples, metaphores, geometrical simplifacations, incertion points and boney landmarks tips that you give. You have helped me a lot and It would be amazing lo lern from you about this topics. Thanks

[MyMessyMind]

funnily enough the drawing at the end that we dont want our drawings to turn out like is what sells for 1000s in abstract gallery shows 😕

[MicahBuzanANIMATION]

You're really good at both drawing and teaching.

[juliusschannelindeeditis]

*calls rubber hose Mickey Mouse*
Me: *confused screaming*

[ryanjames]

YEAH! HE FINALLY UPLOADED A NEW VIDEO! IM SO Happy!!! Love you proko!

[pivotlegend]

all my life I had a hard time drawing hands and now when I found this video watched till 1:21 I can all of a sudden draw hands now ... it’s ridiculous... im disappointed in myself 🤦🏾‍♂️

[cierramoses]

at 8:33 it looked like a bird from some Disney movie 😂

[PampdArt]

I don't know why, but I expected an animated Proko in the three different styles he was talking me? Okay. Anyhow fantastic tutorial once more, Proko! The quality just keeps rising with each new video you upload. :D

[othmaneeljacfi]

hello Proko, i don't know if you will read this comment or not, but maybe it will be a good idea to make short video on how to draw simple shape and some exercices to help improve very basic skills, like drawin straight line, circles etc...