Hands hands hands

My extended practice team asked me how I draw hands, while I'm no expert and I draw hands in a certain style, I do have a few tricks up my sleeve...

I use a lot of these breakdown techniques to draw and animate hands across my modules, especially using reference:

Hot Potato

Before breaking off for the summer holidays, I wanted to collab with a bunch of my friends, so I created a simple animation of a potato and the main character. The concept was based on an actual hot potato so the next frame of this animation would be done by a different artist. I used to block out the simple animation then TVPaint to simplify it further:

I then allocated frames to anyone who was interested (of course, I made an elaborate spreadsheet), but unfortunately, not everyone managed to make a frame before summer. So I took it upon myself to finish this. I used the frames as a warm-up exercise to get my creative juices flowing, while also experimenting with art styles. Eventually, I managed to finish it!

(Special thanks to Ava, Cameron, Carla, Damo, Eleni, and Rory for collaborating with me on this!)