Thanks for the kind words, everyone. OK, here's a bit of how-to, regarding the fingers. This will probably be too basic for most of you guys, but I'm hoping to encourage some of my fellow beginners to give this project a shot. I made my fingers using the vertex modeler (yes, instead of the spline modeler, like a normal person would do; I like working with polygons). I wanted to make sure that they would follow the contour of the bowl-shaped hand, so this is how I went about it: