How long as it been since you heard an artist talk about hands? Well, don’t worry, I won’t go too far into it other than to say that yes, they’re still hard. Surprisingly so, considering one pretty much always has a reference to use. (Good idea by the way. Always use a reference when drawing hand closeups. Or anything else, really.)

The most noticeable thing about this page’s draft though is the final panel. For whatever reason I didn’t have access to my computer one evening, but I new what I wanted in that panel, so I just drew it in my physical sketchbook, then scanned it in. It’s very easy to let setbacks prevent us from making progress, but often we find them to be relatively minor. And even when they’re not minor, they’re also not insurmountable. Use what you have. If your normal way of doing things isn’t working, find another way!