Anatomy of the hand - common mistakes and how to avoid them

In this video, for less then an hour we make a realistic anatomicaly correct human male hand from cube. It is my left hand mostly :). I will tell you what mistakes to not make and what things to look out for when making a hand, either sculpting or drawing.
Sorry about the synch issue with with my camera and mic. i will try to resolve this in the next videos.
You can find this, the head and body videos in a bundle here www.artstation.com/nikoto/sto...
Human head anatomy sculpt: • Modelling a head in Zb...
Male body anatomy sculpt: • Human anatomy sculptin...
My portfolio: www.artstation.com/nikoto
my other portfolio: sketchfab.com/nikohard

[@aliveyetundead]

"You don't have excuse to not do it properly, because you have your hand always with you... of course, except for the people who don't have hands, but... yeah, my tutorials are mostly for people with hands". I'm laughing so much.

[@romaroalte2645]

​@Jesse Terrance I'm not even going to try, because I smell your fraud very much.

[@clay-sculpting]

"It is what it is...so it's cool" 😀

[@benjols6202]

your channel has helped me improve my 3d sculpting so much, honestly one of the best channels for sculpting. big props

[@frantiszek9433]

What a great tutorial! Your explanations are clear, useful, and informative. Thank you very much!

[@JayAnAm]

The best video for hand sculpting, great!

[@MrEgd91]

This guy is the Borat of Character Art ! Love your content, advices and jokes, it's relaxing and encouraging at the same time, keep rocking Sir !

[@TheBaquajean]

I'm a fairly new to sculpting. I've used to struggle a lot with face, mouth and eyes in particular. After watching a lot of tutorials from professional sculptors I was more and more confused. Then I've watched one of your videos and it just clicked. Now my sculpting skills development plan is just: watch one of your videos for a kickstart, study the anatomy and practice. Your techniques are in someway so intuitive. I feel, like I progressed a lot with your help. And for that I would like to thank you :D

[@OmegaPerson-33]

I love your channel. Not only are you a master, but you're also hilarious. Thanks man!

[@foreveranime2785]

Man, I bought a lot of your tutorials. It was the best investment in myself! I like your videos, and your jokes are quite funny!

[@nekronavt]

Your channel needs more subs. Good content.

[@SpeedChar]

Yeah but needs more content too, I just dont have time at the moment. Thank you though:).

[@nekronavt]

@@SpeedChar quaility over quantity :)

[@KaustavMajumder]

A very underrated channel.

[@foreveranime2785]

You are the best teacher! Thanks for this video!!!

[@brianbarnett6225]

Hey man you have the best human anatomy sculpting courses on the web. Keep doing what you do!

[@SpeedChar]

You should check out Proko channel :)

[@MrGSmith2k11]

Your content is fantastic, thank you so much.

[@cafenight7672]

hope we see someday full arm anatomy, thanks for hand

[@bstskdirela]

Content is great, please keep on with the videos!

[@BumbleBee087]

I hope to see foot mistakes too :) thanks for this video!

[@SvetlanaVeljkovicc]

Nekad dodjem da gledam tutorijal i nesto naucim, a nekad da se relaksiram :D

[@sface9838]

Very nice! You are very good!

[@mh294m]

Thank you, for making me not look at my thumb the same ever again!

[@siasia483]

I LOVE your humor! Everytime I get mad because there's something wrong with my sculpting, you just throw a joke out of nowhere and it relexes me immadiately. You are the teacher of my dreams. I think I may accidentaly fall in love with you

[@SpeedChar]

Thank you :). But to improve your sculpting will be nice enough for me. Involving love is a bit too far of a move when watching an online tutorial :).

[@siasia483]

@@SpeedChar But your tutorials aren't just tutorials, they are pieces of art and art tells a lot about one's soul! Love is an irrational force, can't help it. You can just accept it. Thanks a lot for the work you do!

[@jslee2214]

Thank you very much , my teacher

[@juanmanuelavendanorivas968]

eres una gran persona y un gran profesional jajajajja

[@roelldordniwe2235]

спасибо за урок,очень помогло)

[@just_cris_pin]

You say the most unusual Things 😂😂😂...But I love your videos...I learn alot From them📌📌

[@cambodiaarts2495]

Thanks

[@yigitb4813]

So handy tutorial :D

[@ADI-xp4qe]

Great work. Saw your art station page loved it 😍 Especially the latest character. Can you ever make a Udemy course on skin painting organically. (Like without reference or spotlight just using colour pallets)

[@SpeedChar]

I could do that yep. I have other things in mind first, but this could be one good topic for a tutorial too :). Thanks.

[@cyffrowy2882]

Haha omg you're so funny :D Thanks for tutorial!

[@sugretedann1976]

thank you too

[@jonahbuonsanto8512]

at 15:50 he just ctrl drags to mesh his fingers to his hands so he can blend them together, but when i tried that, it didnt work, my fingers are still seprate. if i hit dynamesh the entire thing becomes nessed up. please help

[@SwnTodd]

Почему нигде не видно TotalPoints? хотелось бы понимать количество точек

[@arqambutt3824]

How would you take copy of finger

[@johnrazvaliaeff]

Great video. Can you do one on sculpting a fist?

[@SpeedChar]

That is not a problem at all. Probably i will very soon.

[@Trench_762]

Hey where is the video about feet? Also I love you so much!

[@ahsengilani658]

hey man when adding fingers by curve tube how do you at the end convert them to same resulution and polygons as rest of model? i started my model a dynamesh sphere. Also when about to create fingers it gives a message to freeze subdivisions which i do the curve tube does not work unless i do so.

[@SpeedChar]

So you probably have subdivisions by accident :).

[@ahsengilani658]

@@SpeedChar yeah but fingers when you start are low polygons compared to rest of your hand model and in the end same as rest.

[@SpeedChar]

@@ahsengilani658 yeah, because I have dynameshed in a higher setting to avoid sticking the fingers to each other.

[@ahsengilani658]

@@SpeedChar aah yes i just dynameshed and the fingers web stuck together. wtf. is there any way to delete clay??? ;)

[@dbal_3d]

Niko didn't know that he created a tutorial for sculpting The Thing from the Addams family :D

[@Dr.Scolaris]

12.09 which hotkey you used to copy and paste the finger?

[@SpeedChar]

Hold Control and move it. It has to be without subdivisions though.

[@Dr.Scolaris]

@@SpeedChar thank you :)

[@NoOne-hl2eo]

15:49 how do you make the fingers to blend with the palm? i tried it and the finger look out of place

[@SpeedChar]

Just dynameshing and smoothing with Shift.

[@NoOne-hl2eo]

@@SpeedChar Thank you so much dude!! I really love your tutorial, they're really helpful!

[@TheRebelion009]

@@NoOne-hl2eo Hey Im having the same issue here. Did you just click dynamesh and the fingers merged into the palm? If so its not working for me.

[@brenokisch]

how u make that copy? 12:03

[@nsrstudio7301]

How you connect fingers and hand use dynamesh..?

[@SpeedChar]

Yes :)

[@uones4620]

Can u please make a beginner corse ? Cuz im new in z brush

[@SpeedChar]

Please see my last video :).

[@juanperoen3d]

What is that matcap name?

[@wolfoseses4349]

when working on the hand should you use perspective or orthographic?

[@SpeedChar]

I would use orthographic for the most of the process and at the end maybe a perspective for the final touches.

[@wolfoseses4349]

@@SpeedChar why? when looking at our hand dont we see in perspective? also for the female face you did most of it in perspective. im kind of confused by when to use it.

[@SpeedChar]

@@wolfoseses4349 for small objects like the hand and head, the perspective should be very small. And for the hand it doesn't matter if you have it on or of, but for the head it should be on.

[@wolfoseses4349]

so when you say small you mean the difference in how much it changes what you see? so i guess you should use perspective with the feet and body.

[@user-ku5oo1ps1f]

Where do you get human scans?

[@SpeedChar]

Write in google 3d scans human or man or woman

[@nsrstudio7301]

Why i use dynamesh to connect the object..my detail is gone..😢

[@Darkrikou62]

You can put a better resolution on your dynamesh, for hand and feet you should go high.

[@captainfantastic3490]

Female body\head tutorial is more appealing to me than Foot Tutorial...but maybe that's just me ;)

[@uones4620]

Well i really wanna buy your corse but there is a problem I live in iran and there isnt any way to buy something from other country Im blender artist and i started to learn z brush for game design There was alot of corse for blender but so sad i couldn't buy it cuz i live in bad country Hope u will create a beginner corse and upload it on KZbin But what ever Tnx for your videos it helps me alot

[@SpeedChar]

Give me an email on private message in artstation artstation.com/nikoto

[@gamerplayer6523]

niiice

[@pawanbangera2050]

whenever i dynamesh finger or toes or lips it fills the gap why? and how to get rid of it?

[@SpeedChar]

Dynamesh with higher number

[@pawanbangera2050]

@@SpeedChar so that means first i should sculpt character with low res then later add fingers with high dynamesh number right sir?

[@SpeedChar]

@@pawanbangera2050 I usually add fingers as separate subtool and when I am ready with the overall shape of them and the hand I merge them and dynamesh in high number.

[@pawanbangera2050]

@@SpeedChar this was very helpful sir thank you so much .

[@nsrstudio7301]

how to copy fingers one by one..?

[@SpeedChar]

Hold ctrl and move, but it shouldn't have subdivisions.

[@professionalnoob6027]

the word you were looking for at 16:30 is pronounced ;)

[@SpeedChar]

If you see my channel i have few full courses. One of them is female anatomy that may interest you :).

[@professionalnoob6027]

@@SpeedChar u calling me a perv bro? Pls

[@professionalnoob6027]

I'm joking but are u suggesting because u haven't posted this, since it would get flagged cuz of actual pervs haha

[@SpeedChar]

@@professionalnoob6027 the promo is here on my channel so you just need to browse :)

[@professionalnoob6027]

@@SpeedChar thanks man. I got your intro and female courses, as well as anatomy for sculptors book ~ $100 total. That's all I'm going to invest and im going to start learning from scratch. I can carve out of a box quite well architecturally in rhino 6 and I've been into bodybuilding for 5 years so I just need to grind to get some new skills. I'll buy your other/future courses once I'm good, but my goal is hands/face mastery before anything. Thanks so much!

[@Gr33nDeman]

I love your "black" humor 😂 Its called dark humor buddy! Great tutorial tho! Nice Work!

[@theblankhero]

А будет же такое видео по стопам?

[@SpeedChar]

I didn't know there is interest about a video about the foot. I could try and make one. But after the woman head and body videos.

[@FormJune]

@@SpeedChar I guess feet have more interest since hands can be easily made from zspheres. But for feed there's issue with toes.

[@SpeedChar]

@@FormJune The thing about the feet is that they are way down from the interesting part which is the face and hands. Also on most characters are hidden by boots of some sort. So most people dont even need to make them correctly. And although the basis of the hand are easier to make sometimes, many people are making the hand wrong, and with lots of mistakes. Me included, but at least i know it :).

[@captainfantastic3490]

Ain't Books and class could teach me like this...BTW i'm offended because of the P word :D just kidding, thanks Buddy! ; )

[@SpeedChar]

Thank you too :).

[@chibiparadox]

the hand you modeled looks more like a hand than my actual hand. i'm like fat-patches?! where, what?! #frantically looking at my hands#

[@khokh699]

I am not saying im the best but i am better than most. Good save

[@vamshivams5029]

Take break in between

[@raviliskhakov1243]

Heey dude, i want to see ur speed char tut in english

[@SpeedChar]

Do I have one in Bulgarian that I dont have In English? :)

[@raviliskhakov1243]

SpeedChar hah, sorry, I want to see more videos from u

[@invalidude]

You can't use your hands as reference if you've got no hands OR you have small fat leperchaun ones. 😂 Don't see no tendons on mine unless I flex it really hard.

[@invalidude]

@Gerard Freeman LMAO HAHA WELL POINTED

[@neko829]

10:31 until 10:50 🤣

[@professionalnoob6027]

u have an online paid course? im trying to sign up and be your student lmao

[@capoman1]

25:13 This whole bit about the thumb looking like a penis lol.

[@TheConceptBoy]

Sir, I think you need to see a gynecologist...

[@vishnurajan6430]

Our tutorial is for the people who have hands 😆

[@joshuazak5342]

The person who disliked doesnt have hands :(

[@SpeedChar]

The probability of that is pretty high

[@joshuazak5342]

@@SpeedChar thanks for your video!!! Hand are really hard to comprehend

[@SpeedChar]

@@joshuazak5342 Just needs time and lots of practice like everything else :)

[@mr_vky]

you are so funny