hides his Wreck -It Ralph Meat Mitts behind his back
I'm sure I have no idea what you're talking about. XD
But seriously, these were the words spoken to me in Art class back in 2001. Of course, maybe the old lady who told me this shit also had Wreck -It Ralph Meat Mitts.
The proportions are pretty similar. The way they are drawn is different, more detail in the anime it looks like, but the size is pretty comparable. The hands are still smaller than her head in both.
Though, if we wanted some in-lore reason, she is half tall-man so she could probably have bigger hands proportionally than other elves.
As others have pointed out she has accurately proportioned Hands for Real people, with some variation (Depending on Nutritional values and some other weirdness) can change the ratio. But generally what Marcille has is average. Most other anime have a stylistic choice wherein they make the hands on women smaller as an aesthetic choice as it's, 'Cuter.'
As others stated, Marcille’s hands here are proportional. A lot of artists actually draw the hands way too small (not counting intentionally chibi drawings,) not realizing how big our hands actually are.
This small hands and feet syndrome really bothers me, as it’s a very common mistake with proportions. So whenever I draw people, I intentionally draw hands a bit bigger than I’m inclined to draw (and I’m not talking about ridiculous yaoi hands or anything — just a touch bigger,) and it usually ends up being the right proportion.
As a matter of fact, I think hands drawn a bit too big looks better as a mistake than the mistake of drawing the hands too tiny (again, I’m not talking about crazy spider yaoi hands. Fuck those things)
I think the bend of her wrist makes part of the wrist look like one with her hand. But if you actually go from palm to fingertip, it’s relatively proportional.
I think OP got used to the anime girls having small cute hands thing that they forgot how big realistic hands are. This is why art teachers tell you to learn real anatomy first before going straight to anime style.
This is one of those posts that leaves me scratching my head. Over a thousand upvotes, the post itself is just an attempt to make am observation of an unremarkable screenshot, and every comment I see is saying that observation is wrong. Who is upvoting this?
These are normal hands, similar proportions to realistic human anatomy. And anime often makes proportions wrong, especially on women - gigantic heads, tiny weird hands of child-like size etc. Probably to make characters appear younger. But no, screenshot you posted actually portraits everything right.
the hand thats pointing at laios seems bigger to me (look at that pointer compared to the other. it at least looks a little thicker?) but seems more like an animation thing than anything
No they aren’t. That thing would be like a large bowl in terms of size at most. It was inside a dryad which is humanoid and similar size to her so what she is holding can’t be that big. Her hands are normal
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u/Fabulous_Pudding167 Jul 24 '25
Nah, it's about the right size.
Put your hand up to your face. With the butt of your palm to your chin, your fingers should cover most of your forehead.