Urbane_Guerrilla: You've a way to go before you begin to draw representations, not symbols.
Yes: hands are tricky to draw. At first you feel fortunate when you can get hands to look a lot like gloves -- though drawing mittens is a good way to locate hands on the paper; the hands go in the mittens.
Something that sharpened up my hands in a single hour or two was copying line for line, modeling for modeling, the pencil sketches from Froud & Lee's Fairies, and that taught me "he got that shape drawing that line right there." Varied success of course at the beginning, but it was like having a drawing coach. Instructors and courses in figure drawing do speed the learning curve, but art books and practicing can get you there. Matures your method, you know.
Yes: hands are tricky to draw. At first you feel fortunate when you can get hands to look a lot like gloves -- though drawing mittens is a good way to locate hands on the paper; the hands go in the mittens.
Something that sharpened up my hands in a single hour or two was copying line for line, modeling for modeling, the pencil sketches from Froud & Lee's Fairies, and that taught me "he got that shape drawing that line right there." Varied success of course at the beginning, but it was like having a drawing coach. Instructors and courses in figure drawing do speed the learning curve, but art books and practicing can get you there. Matures your method, you know.