Quincunx
2007-01-10, 09:29 AM
My connection has been tetchy for some time, please forgive the lack of uploaded examples. I'd thought to get to artpad.art.com and use that, but it won't load either. . .If the connection improves later, I'll come back and add examples, but don't depend on it.
I'm trying to make a headbanging avatar. While the lighter-holding hand looks fine, I'm having trouble making devil horns \m/ with a three-fingered stick hand. In fact, putting horns on the three-fingered hand seems impossible. The basic three-fingered horseshoe hand shape, turned curved-side upwards, is part of it, but I can't work out the remainder.
One attempt has no extra digits, but extends the arm into the horseshoe and almost touches the circle, dividing the down-turned hand into fingers and thumb. The arm is not parallel to any of the fingers. This looks best, but like a fist with outstretched thumb, not wholly like devil horns. Neither straight digits radiating from the outside of the horseshoe, nor curved digits radiating outwards from the horseshoe, make a convincing hand. Inverting the horseshoe to have two "digits" pointing upwards, while the middle digit points downward, just looks obscene; adding more downwards-pointing digits does not help.
I'm trying to make a headbanging avatar. While the lighter-holding hand looks fine, I'm having trouble making devil horns \m/ with a three-fingered stick hand. In fact, putting horns on the three-fingered hand seems impossible. The basic three-fingered horseshoe hand shape, turned curved-side upwards, is part of it, but I can't work out the remainder.
One attempt has no extra digits, but extends the arm into the horseshoe and almost touches the circle, dividing the down-turned hand into fingers and thumb. The arm is not parallel to any of the fingers. This looks best, but like a fist with outstretched thumb, not wholly like devil horns. Neither straight digits radiating from the outside of the horseshoe, nor curved digits radiating outwards from the horseshoe, make a convincing hand. Inverting the horseshoe to have two "digits" pointing upwards, while the middle digit points downward, just looks obscene; adding more downwards-pointing digits does not help.