I just noticed this!

[krait]

I've seen this cool hand reference floating around Tumblr before:




But tonight's the first time I thought "wow, that diagram showing where the thumb lines up to the other fingers looks kind of weird; does it really look like that?"

Quick comparison to my own hands says: nope! When rested on a flat surface, the tip of my thumb is waaaay above the palm/finger knuckle joints! It's pretty close to being even with the first finger hinge joint of my pointer finger. o.O

Either this guide was drawn by someone with weird hands, or I have weird hands, or (possibly) this is one of those subtly gendered proportion things.

How do YOUR hands line up?

Comments

[krait]

I did notice they were super-skinny, wide-spaced fingers, too -- they look like dude hands in manga, rather than a photorealistic rendering. Stylised, definitely, and designed for emphatic suggestion rather than portraiture.

Perfectly valid (see: manga!) and doesn't ping me as "wrong", except for the super-short thumb! :D

I didn't spend much time looking at the curved/"clawed" hand, really; I read the text, went 'yeah, fingers do that' and thus basically skipped over it. You probably have a point, though.