My attempts at drawing various things

At the moment, I am trying to draw hands which so far I haven't really specialized in. But there are often things I draw which don't make a complete picture, so over time I might post various drafts.

For a start, here's a first hand drawing:

The thumb was still a bit clunky and the picture overall a bit to small. So here's my next take:

Well, I've got two of them myself. Normally they do the job perfectly fine. And I have them with me all the time. So I guess I won't need assistence in this area so soon.

I played around a bit with my chirpcharps again. As not much is left from the South Park elements, I used to create them, maybe this is the best place to show it. Although at closer inspection the eyelashes and the beak might still be from Janina's drawings.

This could once become part of a children's book or something set in my sci-fi world.

A new character and story idea: Professor Alonsius is a scientist who travels space in his rocket ship.

A question to all native speakers: Could one call a professor a "prof" for short or would that sound strange?

When used as a nickname, would you capitalize "prof"?

I'm not really sure about that explanation. But Dr. Who often is referred to as "the Doctor" and when written out, it seems to be capitalized (capitalised?), too. German ist much easier in that respect. Nouns always are capitalized.

I think, you're talking about proper nouns and names. Pronouns would be words like "he" or "she". Those aren't capitalized in English with the exception of "I".

In any case, "the Prof" will be a nickname commonly used for Professor Alonsius by his friends.

Professor Alonsius built his research base on an asteroid.

Quote from lillardlover

I have a really hard time drawing hands...

So do I.

For the rest of the body you can find quite good schematics on how big the body parts are in relation to each other. I guess because there are so many hand gestures, such a schematic would quickly become quite complicated, so most tutorials for drawing hands have a more intuitional approach. Which isn't that much of a help, if you don't have much talent in drawing hands to begin with.

At the moment I am generally going for a more stylized look, which is more foregiving.

The rocket ship was more of a stand-in. I often use open graphics for things I have not yet been drawing myself. This is more what the Prof's ship will finally look like.