Recently, I created an exhibit around Hands, and hands are a really fun thing for me to draw. A lot of artists avoid drawing hands and often skim over their complexity. One of my former drawing teachers always told us to be very diligent about hands and feet in our life drawings and that they were a very important part of the picture not to be skipped. In that scenario, drawing hands was not being a lazy artist, but really I have an appreciation for hands in drawings that goes deeper. Hands can be very intimate and very communicative. Generally, holding hands indicates a very innocent and still very affectionate bond with someone, and hands are also used quite frequently as a secondary form of speech. People who are speaking with a lot of emphasis and excitement tend to have very active hands that add another level of visual engagement to the person’s facial cues as they are speaking. Hands are also very powerful, and a unique part of being a human and able to create and fabricate new things. I hope you will be inspired to take a closer look at hands and enjoy drawing them.