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Initial cut out

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the line behind the thumb was just me trying to figure out where I would put some more thickness

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Some shaping of the fingers and trying to get a concave center.

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Here I felt good about the shape and most of the volume and this was my first attempt at pressing in the fingernails.

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This was done as the same night all of the majors were but after some quick measurements I saw that the middle finger was a little thin so I added back some volume.

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Im pretty sure in the end I added back volume to all of the fingers as here it is evident they do not look as though they are a part of the same hand

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A rear view of added volume to the middle finger.

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I call this majors night because I spent around 5 hours measuering and remeasuering to try and get them right.

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I took no pictures in between these two so it looks like a very drastic change and it is but its the result of 5 hours of solid focused work.

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And so while I spent all that time getting that side right I did none of the back. That is also because its the side I laid it down on and from this angle its very clear that the hand was not supported evenly on the bottom.

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But this is the final result of Majors night

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After that night I knew I had to redo the nails and so I tried my hand at the thumb nail. Which did not turn out well but it was a very much needed failure to experience.

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After a night of rehydration wrapped in a rag a finger fell.

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Though it wasn't a problem.

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Here is a view of the nails. I ended up redoing them quite a bit which really helped them look right.

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The reason I didn't care for getting the fingers right the first few times was I knew that bending the fingers would ruin them a bit and I had to hollow out my hand.

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Here is a picture of the bottom with what looks to be a middle finger but I swear Sultan was doing a peace sign his finger just got cut out.

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I was dreading the process of bending the fingers because when I tried to the this first one it completly fell off and I had to reattach it. Which meant that I might end up turning the finger and mess up the angle.

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The index finger here is where I want it but you can see how I first tried to bend the middle finger.

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Because of the pose I wanted my hand to be in I had to bend the fingers in all three joints even the very end. Which here you can see now swoops up but when standing it looks like firm pressure is being applied in order to lock out that last joint.

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The angle here didn't quite capture what I wanted but the general idea of firm pressure can be seen.

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I then moved onto the middle finger with the same process.

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Here the idea of the firm pressure is easier to see but my hand supporting the sculpture wasn't at the right angle as my connections were still soft and I didn't want it to move.

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Here is much of the work from majors night kinda disappearing but I now had to figure out how they would look in the pose I wanted not if they were flat.

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Here was after taking it home and bending the ring and pinky finger.

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You can notice the pinky doesn't bend at all points like the others but its too short to still make contact with a flat surface. So it only requires that it bends at the knuckle.

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After all of that work I looked back at my own hand and realize I just bent all of the fingers facing the wrong directions. So I had to turn them at the cut points shown here.

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This is a very bad picture.

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Here you can see the result of turning the fingers much more as they all point in different directions like my actual hand does.

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A bit blurry on the wrong parts but the locking of the joints at the tips is much more visible and the curvature of knuckles is seen.

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I noticed that my thumb was looking pretty wonky compared to the rest as well as I had to turn it like the other fingers to get it to stand.

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After a lot of staring at my own hand I started to carve in the majors into each finger again.

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Just finished the majors and ready to reattach both the top and thumb to lower palm.

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Along with redoing the majors I had to redo the nails

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The finished result of my spring break work.

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The back of my hand was lacking a lot in terms of any detail but thats also because the only thing I really had to do were the knuckles. Here they look good but they were too tall and far back.

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Putting the majors on the other side of the fingers.

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A stand alone hand at last.

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Its a little hard to see but I still had to put the majors on the top of the thumb where a joint locks out. I had also reattached the wrist.

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The middle finger ended up being a little too tall and started to bend sideways instead of staying straight as it really is on my hand.

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An inside look at the majors.

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Patience is a virtue hold it dear it will do wonders.