I made this for one of my own character line-ups, but anyone is free to use it. Also, I made it in InDesign, so if you need a bigger file size (or an .indd file), I can give you one as big as you need.
I’ve seen a lot of posts about how to draw hands or posts with lots of screenshots from real life or Disney films for a reference to copy but I’ve never seen one with Robert McKimson hands.
I really like Robert McKimson hands, whether drawn by himself or by other animations in the cartoons he directed.
Robert McKimson hands strike a balance between basic cartoon hands and really complicated realistic hands that are very hard to animate. It’s the next step up from Preston Blair. As a reference, here’s the how-to for drawing cartoon hands by the great animator Preston Blair.
In contrast the McKimson hands I’ve posted have longer fingers, more wrinkles and more bends than the Blair hands. They’re more specific, but they’re not ridiculously complicated like some Disney human hands.
Some of the hands I posted look like they were drawn by McKimson himself (or someone with similar skills) and some look like they were drawn or in-betweened by a less skilled animator. You can tell because some of the hands have more details & curves than others and the fingers bend twice (like real-life hands). In some of the hands it looks like someone simplified the fingers a bit, even so they’re still very good to copy.
Although keep in mind if you’re new to drawing, the Preston Blair hands are the best ones to start off with.
(open image in new tab for much better quality)(heads up it’s a pretty big pic)
Since there isn’t a proper reference sheet for Sombra yet, I decided to go and make my own! Feel free to use for yourself and tell me if you think I messed up on the skin tones/other gradients; I was working with a lot of different lightings and did my best to make it accurate as possible!
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