This step by step in tutorial shows how to draw anime, manga or comic book fashion hands holding various objects. The examples include hands holding a knife, sword, shopping purse, phone, gun and pen or pencil. These examples can besides exist applied to cartoon existent easily.

You may also desire to run across the How to Draw Anime and Manga Hands Step by Step.

Anime hands holding different objects
Anime easily holding different objects

Drawing hands on their own can be quite complicated. Drawing hands that are holding something can be fifty-fifty more catchy equally parts of the hand can be covered by the object making information technology even more difficult to get the correct placement and proportions of different parts of the hand.

To help you this tutorial shows some examples of cartoon objects that you are very likely to come across in an anime, manga or comic books.

How to Depict Anime or Manga Manus Belongings a Knife

Anime hand holding knife palm and thumb base
Anime hand holding knife palm and pollex base of operations

Showtime cartoon by getting the overall proportions of the major parts of the hand. When the fingers are together you can draw them as ane big shape before drawing each finger individually.

Anime hand holding knife fingers and thumb proportions
Anime hand belongings pocketknife fingers and pollex proportions

Draw the base of the thumb then the thumb itself. The different shapes can overlap each other but y'all tin erase the overlapping lines as y'all keep cartoon so that your sketch wont get too cluttered.

Your finished proportions sketch should await like the paw is wearing a glove.

Anime hand holding knife thumb and finger proportions
Anime hand holding knife thumb and finger proportions

Subsequently yous have the rough shape of the hand (this can be a very rough sketch) draw in the actual object that the hand volition be holding (in this instance the knife).

Anime hand holding knife sketch
Anime hand holding knife sketch

Clean upward your cartoon past erasing any guidelines.

Anime hand holding knife
Anime hand holding knife

Draw in the details of the mitt and knife. You can also go over the drawing with darker cleaner lines.

You can also employ the same view of the hand and the same steps when drawing information technology belongings other type of of objects and you lot tin can flip the object to point upwards instead of downward. For example you can besides draw a society or a sword. You tin also rotate the hand and draw it holding on to something like a handrail.

How to Describe Anime or Manga Hand Belongings a Sword

Anime hand holding sword palm and thumb base
Anime hand property sword palm and pollex base of operations

Beginning with the major shapes of the hand.

Anime hand holding sword fingers and thumb and index proportions
Anime hand holding sword fingers and thumb and alphabetize proportions

Because in this instance we will have the alphabetize finger pointing slightly away from the other fingers nosotros will describe it separately. You can start drawing the residue of the fingers every bit i big shape (same as in the first instance).

Anime hand holding sword finger proportions
Anime hand property sword finger proportions

After yous take the major proportions draw in the sword. Depict out the individual fingers afterwards.

Anime hand holding sword sketch
Anime hand belongings sword sketch

Clean upwards your drawing.

Anime hand holding sword
Anime hand belongings sword

Describe in the smaller details.

Only as the previous example yous can also use this view and position of the manus to show it holding other objects or holding on to things in a more than relaxed style.

For a tutorial on drawing a katana run across:

How to Draw a Katana Step past Step

For other types of weapons see:

How to Draw a Shuriken (Ninja Star) Step past Step

How to Describe Anime or Manga Hand Belongings a Shopping Bag

Anime hand holding shopping bag palm and thumb base
Anime hand property shopping purse palm and thumb base

Start with the major shapes of the mitt. Draw the palm and the base of the thumb.

Anime hand holding shopping bag fingers and thumb proportions
Anime paw holding shopping bag fingers and thumb proportions

Draw in the overall shape of the fingers and so draw the thumb base of operations followed past the thumb itself.

Anime hand holding shopping bag finger proportions
Anime hand holding shopping bag finger proportions

Describe the bag after you have the rough sketch of the hand draw and each individual finger afterwards.

Anime hand holding shopping bag
Anime hand holding shopping handbag

Erase the guidelines and finalize your cartoon past calculation the details.

How to Draw Anime or Manga Manus Holding a Telephone

Anime hand holding phone palm and thumb base
Anime mitt holding phone palm and pollex base

Although subsequently on most of the hand will be covered b the phone you should once again describe the major shapes of the mitt same as in previous examples to avoid making mistakes afterward on.

Anime hand holding phone fingers and thumb proportions
Anime mitt holding phone fingers and pollex proportions

Depict a rough shape to indicate the outer shape of the fingers (you can also skip this for this particular view and start drawing each finger individually). Adjacent draw the pollex.

Anime hand holding finger proportions
Anime hand holding finger proportions

Depict in the telephone very lightly so that you can still see the hand.

Anime hand holding phone sketch
Anime hand holding telephone sketch

Make clean upwardly your drawing. For the purposes of the tutorial the phone is left as "see through" in this footstep but you tin can become alee and eras the hidden parts of the hand.

Anime hand holding phone
Anime hand holding phone

Y'all can erase the invisible part of the hand if you accept not washed so in the previous step and draw in the details.

How to Draw Anime or Manga Hand Holding a Gun

Anime hand holding gun palm and thumb base
Anime mitt holding gun palm and thumb base

Draw the major shapes of the hand.

Anime hand holding gun fingers and thumb proportions
Anime paw holding gun fingers and thumb proportions

Draw the index finger separate from the other fingers (information technology will be on the trigger) and depict the overall shape of the other fingers combined.

Anime hand holding gun index finger proportions
Anime manus property gun index finger proportions

Draw in the gun after you have the major proportions of the hand.

Anime hand holding gun finger proportions
Anime hand holding gun finger proportions

Draw the individual fingers.

Anime hand holding gun sketch
Anime hand holding gun sketch

Clean up your drawing.

Anime hand holding gun
Anime hand holding gun

Describe in the details.

How to Draw Anime or Manga Paw Belongings a Pen or Pencil

Anime hand holding pen or pencil palm and thumb base
Anime hand holding pen or pencil palm and thumb base of operations

Get the overall proportions of the the hand. It can be a lilliputian more than hard to describe the palm part of the hand in this view.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil thumb and index finger proportions
Anime hand holding pen or pencil thumb and alphabetize finger proportions

Draw the thumb and the index finger and afterwards depict in the pen or pencil.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil middle finger proportions
Anime mitt belongings pen or pencil middle finger proportions

Since the other fingers are not fully visible in this view it tin be difficult to depict them in the correct position and proportions. Therefore it is a good idea to fully draw out each finger from the base to the tip with lite lines (you tin erase the invisible parts later on).

For the sake of the tutorial some parts of the hand are shown equally see through to make it easier to come across other parts. You don't need to worry about this in your drawing.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil ring finger proportions
Anime paw holding pen or pencil ring finger proportions

Depict the ring finger.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil pinky finger proportions
Anime mitt holding pen or pencil pinky finger proportions

Describe the pinky finger.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil sketch
Anime hand holding pen or pencil sketch

Clean up your cartoon.

Anime hand holding pen or pencil
Anime hand holding pen or pencil

Describe the smaller details of the hand.

Conclusion

As already mentioned y'all tin can utilize the examples in this tutorial to depict the hands holding other objects. You lot tin can too draw the easily in other views using the same principles by starting with a rough sketch, drawing the major parts of the hand get-go and working your way down to the details. If you lot are having trouble drawing the parts that are non fully visible endeavour and draw the hand as "see through" to help you place them correctly.

E'er be sure to compare the dissimilar proportions of the hand to one another to assist avoid mistakes. Hands are difficult to draw so don't get discouraged if your drawings don't come up out right the start time. Keep practicing.

For more on cartoon hands see:

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