Modeling hands is hard. Used Ico Spheres and it worked

[RayMobula]

Hello There!

So, since the hands I gave my Ogre look like … and other approaches I tried turned out meh at best.

So, I gave Grant Abbitt’s approach a shot. In his latest YouTube videos, he uses Ico Spheres to make hands.
From his video:

And here is my take making a hand using Ico Spheres:

It needs some touch ups in the sculpt, but this approach seems to work for me. I may try to rig them as well.

If you know any other techniques, please let me know.

Grant’s video. Ico Spheres at 68s

Blender 4 Character Creation Breakdown Tutorial: RETRO SPACE GIRL (Modelling, Materials, Rigging)

Cheers,
Ray.

ps: This reference helped a lot too

[RayMobula]

Metaballs are interesting. This alien hand took only a few minutes.

[coen_fuhriman]

That’s a really good approach! I struggled with the hands too

[RayMobula]

Forgot to tag @Grant_Abbitt

Grant, in your mind and based on your experience teaching digital art, which method has been most successful for beginners to model hands? Besides modeling 10,000 hands

Cheers,
Ray.

ps: A slow version of your Retro Space Girl video would be nice. Or as an extension to your anime course.