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Old 05-01-2003, 12:11 AM   #7
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I'm seeing the hands as too large.
I'd briefly thought that, too, but the hands are in fact well in front of the figure, in perspective, so the effect could be, I thought, dealt with by minimizing edges and value changes that brought attention to those features.

If you put the heel of your hand on your chin, the tip of your index finger hits your hair line. Hands are pretty big! (We often visualize hands as the size of our palms, plus fingers. Fingers stick out there quite a ways.) [Correction: I misstated that measurement -- the distance from chin to hairline is instead the span from tip of the thumb to tip of the middle finger.]
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