Basic Cartoon Hands
Hands can be intimidating but a little practice will get you creating all kinds of hand types. This tutorial is about the dangling hand type and teaches only one of limitless possibilities.
Open a 400x400 image. Make sure you have a black stroke color and whatever skin tone fill color you'd like to use.
Draw an oval using the Ellipse tool. Make sure you have Create as Vector check in the tool options palette.
Click on the Vector object selector in the tool palette. The Tool Options palette will now offer you the option to Node Edit. Choose Node Edit and drag the top node up a bit to create a shape similar to below.
Create a new layer. Draw another oval only this time longer. Using the Node Edit tool to shape the finger as below.
Copy and newly created finger, paste it as a new layer and position it as below.
Paste again to a new layer for finger three and position it as below.
Paste again to a new layer. This time you might want to edit the shape again to make the end a little stubbier for the thumb as shown below.
Create a new layer and draw another oval. This time however remove the stroke style so there is no outline and place it over the finger ovals to get the effect shown below.
Using the Ellipse tool and on separate layers for each nail, create finger nails without a stroke style. Use the node edit tool to shape them.
Using the same process you can create all kinds of hand types by just using the Ellipse tool and editing the vector shapes as necessary.
Add your hands to a body and you're all set. Have fun!
When you're all done you can save each hand to the Shapes library for use later. To do that:
1. Select all the pieces of your hand.
2. Right click on the hand and choose Group.
3. On the Tool Options palette choose Properties and name the Group.
I usually name it the same as I am going to name the group for the library.
4. From the File menu choose Export>Shape.
5. Name the Shape.
6. Paint Shop Pro will create the shape in the shapes library so you'll always have it handy without having to recreate it.
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