I have very poor drawing skills but a hair-brained scheme that requires me to draw two smiling faces giving each other a Hi-Five. I have an idea how to draw the faces in Photoshop LE but not the hands part.
Please don’t draw your own version just tell me generally how to draw comical hands. I will be using it on a for-profit item and don’t want to have to worry about royalties.
Here’s a good guide that looks to be about what you would need, at least for a starting point. It’s a clever idea. Take a photo of the hands and trace a basic outline in your photo editing program. Make sure the outline is on a different layer than the photo and then delete the photo when you’re done. Like magic, you’re left with hands! It’s simple, but probably not something that I would have thought of.
As far as the comical part, I would suggest googling cartoon hand pictures and trying to figure out what makes them comical. One pattern that I’ve noticed (other than the incorrect number of fingers!) is that the fingers are slightly wider at the tips than they are where they meet the palm. I don’t know why that seems to be the norm, but it might be worth incorporating into your picture.
Good luck!
Thank you for the suggestions MissMossie.
You’ll either need shoulders & arms or your hands will probably need to be floating independent of the heads with which they are associated.