Puppet Making Workshop | The Hands

Creating the hands was very interesting thing to do.

I started by drawing my hand in the position that i wanted the puppet to have his hands in. First from the top view and then the side.

From here I separated the shapes of the fingers from the side drawing, this then allowed me to place each individual finger onto a block of styrofoam big enough for each finger then cut them out.

Once all fingers were cut out, apart from the thumb, I shaped each finger then filed the sides down so that once glued together I could carve them to create the tapering shape down to the wrist.

The thumb I cut out form the top view. This gave me more material to carve with.

After gluing all parts together I began to carve the palm and knuckles.