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Drawing hands?
- Thread starter Nekusagi
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I'll give you the best tutorial. Just use your own hands or if you have a Barbie doll lying around, use their's. Just remember the contour determins the inside order of your hands. Good luck! And btw, only losers look for tutorials to draw hands when they can use real-life models. The same with bodies. Why use a body-drawing tutorial when you can just get out your old barbie. That's what I do and it works better.
Murgatroyd
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CC, there is a substantial gap between seeing something, and being able to reproduce it on paper. The purpose of tutorials is to give guidelines on what sorts of techniques work for certain common problems of such reproduction, and to suggest methods that someone might not think of on their own.
On another note, why in the world would you use a Barbie as a reference for drawing bodies? The pose is limited, and the proportions are ridiculously distorted. Ever heard about how if Barbie was a real person she'd be seven feet tall...?
There are basically four things you can use if you want reference material for drawing people...real people, mannequins, other pictures (but watch out for plagarism), and tutorials. And to compare: people don't like posing that long, mannequins cost money and are only the vague forms, other pictures will only have poses some artist has done...
There are basically four things you can use if you want reference material for drawing people...real people, mannequins, other pictures (but watch out for plagarism), and tutorials. And to compare: people don't like posing that long, mannequins cost money and are only the vague forms, other pictures will only have poses some artist has done...
Pacific Pikachu
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Staring at your own hands or using the hand of a friend/family member has always worked for me. You'd be amazed at the difference it makes just to have the person who is modeling move their hand into the pose you want, and then do a quick sketch of what it looks like. As with anything in drawing, the more practice, the better. Eventually you'll get good enough that you won't even think about what you're doing.
Good luck! I think real-life examples work better than tutorials.
Good luck! I think real-life examples work better than tutorials.