Q&A for How to Draw a Hand

It's mostly the same, but on average, the hand and fingers will be a little thinner. Everybody's hands are different, though, and they will tend to differ depending on body type (e.g., thinner people will tend to have thinner hands; shorter people will tend to have shorter hands and fingers). The best way to really learn is to look at and copy photographs of different male hands and different female hands.

Draw a hand, but make the fingers slightly thinner and make the edges more pointed.

Observe your hand carefully, taking note of where the light hits it, the shape, and tone of your hand, then try to draw that. Then practice!!

Use rectangles to draw a wrist/arm, and use circles to make the elbow joint, them outline it and add wrinkles/shading/tone.

It is like a slightly open fist. So draw the base shape of the hand, then the item, and then the fingers around it. It gets easier as you understand the 3D shape of the hand, so if you want to draw many hands doing many things, it is better to draw your own, and find pictures of positions you cannot do yourself, and simplify them.

You mean ambidextrous? Then you're lucky! You can draw both hands easily, because you can look at either while you draw them.

Most of the time you need a pencil, some paper and an eraser. If you get more experienced, you should buy a sketchbook if possible.

Add wrinkles, age spots, and shade in the corresponding places. Look at reference images online as a guideline.

It depends on where you want the light to be facing. Whichever side the light is coming from will be where to put highlights. The opposite side will be shaded.

The nails depend on the character you're drawing. If it was a lady, then it really depends on the situation that the character is in or whether or not you want the person to have long or short nails. So just do what you want! Also, no, they probably would be a bit smaller on a woman's hand, but it doesn't really matter.