My Hand - 3rd June

You've already identified the problems with it, but I still like the skin tones - the sheen on the skin - and anatomically it's fine; just a question of adjusting the shadows and tones. The one thing that strikes me is the rather grey/blackish divisions between the joints of the finger - mind you, you might be a motor mechanic.... You have a long thumb, by the look of it; all conducing to what might be a rather good impression for a book cover, work entitled "Hand Of The Strangler" ... a disembodied human hand can be highly sinister..

Hehe typical Robert comment! This is a quite unique offering for a day of your daily challenge and it is really good, hands are amazingly difficult shouldn't be but they definitely are!

Many people say that hands are one of the most difficult parts to paint of the human form, this certainly looks a really good attempt to me Matthew.

Come back to this one in a couple of days and try again on a new sheet. All the things you don't like you can put right. I found the longer I did the challenge the quicker I got and the better I painted. This is pretty good though.