What are hands?

Handy Facts!
...the end part of a
person's arm beyond the
wrist, including the palm,
fingers, and thumb.

What is the purpose of having hands?

The human hand is different to the hands or
paws of other animals, because it has fingers
and a thumb that can work together. The hands
of our nearest relatives, the apes, also have
thumbs like ours!
Our thumb can work with each of our fingers,
including our smallest finger and our ring finger,
so we can do much more complicated things
than most animals.

Helped mankind survive!

Our thumbs help us to pick things up and use

tools.
http://www.cyh.
com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?

Why do we have fingers?

The quick answer is that we have
fingers and toes because our ancestors
have them and because they are useful
for walking and grabbing objects.
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=1017

Why 5 fingers?
So, why five? No one really knows. Its the ultimate metaproblem on top of everything, says Sharpe. I often say
that if we understood why five, wed probably understand
everything.

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/01/how-did-you-get-five-fingers/

Why do we have fingernails?

The human and primate nail corresponds to
the claw, hoof, or talon of other animals.
Human nails protect the tips of the toes and
fingers, while fingernails help us pick up
small objects and scratch ourselves.
http://ask.yahoo.com/20010504.html

How many bones do we have? Muscles?

The tendons that control the
bones in our helpful little
protrusions are attached to

17 Muscles

27

http://www.todayifoundout.
com/index.
php/2013/04/fingers-dontcontain-muscles/

What culture uses their hands as the

center of their artwork the most?
In the creative arts, the hand speaks, and one senses
the tremendous power of the hand to convey human
emotions. The hands are the organs of the body
which, except for the face, have been used most often
in the various art forms to express human feeling...
From prehistoric times to our own day, in every society
known to science, the hands symbolize cultural
behaviors, values, and beliefs.
http://www.oandplibrary.org/al/1955_02_004.asp

Durer

How do you draw muscles?

Contracted
Muscles
Relaxed Muscles
Where are the
muscles bulging?
Motion
http://design.tutsplus.com/articles/human-anatomyfundamentals-muscles-and-other-body-mass--vector22756

Why are hands wrinkly? How do we

draw the texture?
When the hand is kept wet, the skin
of the palm wrinkles. Why? The
exact mechanism is not known, but it
is clearly controlled by nerves.

http://www.eatonhand.com/hw/facts.htm

How do we draw it if its cutting off another

finger?

Overlap!

Why is it so hard to draw hands!

Don't think of them as hands - think of them as
simple shapes (cylinders, spheres, etc.).

Draw what you see - not what you think you see!

Drawing Hands in Different Positions

First, look at the basic shapes.
Then Practice. Practice. Practice. :)

Double jointed? Hitchhiker thumb?

People have the greatest
flexibility around ball-andsocket joints, which involve the
ball-shaped end of one bone
fitting into a corresponding
depression on the other
bone.The shallower the
indention is, the greater the
flexibility in movement. Thus,
people who are double-jointed
sometimes have shallower
joints that allow a wider range
of movement. http://www.
yalescientific.org/2010/05/why-are-somepeople-double-jointed/

Some people with a hitchhiker's

thumb are capable of bending the
joint in the thumb to extremes which
may look uncomfortable to people
who lack this genetic trait. You may
also hear hitchhiker's thumb referred
to as hyperextension of the thumb in
a reference to this. There is no
particular advantage or disadvantage
of having a hitchhiker's thumb, and it
certainly does not predispose people
to hitchhiking. http://www.wisegeek.org/what-ishitchhikers-thumb.htm#didyouknowout

Largest hands??
Average Size?

Mr. Kosen also holds the

record for the widest hand
span at 27.5 cm.

How many things can you do with

your hands?

Countless number of things!!

http://mashable.com/2014/02/14/fun-hands/

How much do hand models make?

Typically, a hand model can earn from $300 to a few
thousand dollars an hour.
Take hand model Ashly Covington, for instance. "I
moisturize 20 to 30 times a day, and wear gloves 90
percent of the time," she told CNN. "When it's your
livelihood, you've got to think hands first," she added.
Find out some more interesting facts regarding this
uncommon profession.
http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Five-Fun-Facts-About-HandModels-3931166

Nail polish? If you think about it its

actually really weird! Yes it is!
Nail polish originated in China, dating
back to 3000 BC. Around 600 BC during
the Zhou Dynasty, the royal house
preferred for the colors gold and silver.
and the high society red.
After the creation of automobile paint,
Cutex produced the first modern nail
polish in 1917.
Once nail polish was refined, it was
often used in the place of gloves to
cover up the grime underneath finger
and toe nails.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_polish

Sincerely, Your Handy Facts Checker

The art of life is to show

your hand.
E. V. Lucas