This is an accelerated drawing lapse of a holiday card I designed on my tablet, in which I drew hands offering a star and some good holiday cheer. For this design, I took a photo of my hands in the offering position, printed it out, and drew a few warm-up drawings in pencil before beginning the digital drawing. I really like to use a lot of layers; it helps with drafting to have an initial layer that I allow myself to be messy on, and then draw layers over it that I plan on keeping in the final view. It's also great for editing major parts of the drawing while preserving my work on other layers that embody a different brush, color or style.
In this video, I am drawing my left hand in real time using a graphite pencil on a page in my sketchbook.