The Mighty Hercules: Medusa's Sceptre
I find it useful to consider how two mediums with overlapping interests, photography and animation, for example, approach the same topic - in this case, hand posing.
There's a classic animation hand pose used for graceful women that relaxes the hand and groups the middle two fingers together to clarify and simplify the silhouette.
It seems somewhat similar to how a ballerina holds her hands, with the exception that her fingers are not grouped.
Model photographer Mary DuPrie discuses these issues in some detail in her DVDs.
Hand Poses 07 by ~stockyourselfout on deviantART
