Jacket/fabric Study That I Did At The Very Start Of The Year Turned Into A Gif Bc The Material Is There

and then his boyfriend provides him with blood? :) (please say yes i need this in my life so bad)

whats the point of it all if he doesnt

The big post of things about hands!!! I don’t consider myself qualified to teach art at this point in my life, but I don’t see any harm in sharing observations I have made. In learning to draw hands over the past few months I’ve tried to take a lot of notes, with the end goal of hopefully creating a video tutorial one day. I personally learn better from videos than written or illustrated instructions, but I’ve never found any one video that really demystifies drawing hands. I believe that in order to tackle such a difficult subject it is important to understand what makes it difficult, and this is not often addressed. If you understand the problems you can systematically solve them…

Drawing the hand is almost like drawing a whole person. Similar number of “major masses” and a big range of motion.

Because the hand is so versatile, it’s hard to pick a pose when practicing. Most individual body parts are drawn from different angles, whereas the hand must be drawn from different angles and in different poses.

Hands have a lot of moving parts and from any given angle many of these will be partially or wholly obscured by other parts. Drawing “through the form” results in confusing construction lines that are difficult to interpret.

Hands are expressive and give big clues as to what a character is doing. Odd or unnatural hand poses detract heavily from your overall piece. Most people avoid drawing hands because of this.

The thumb flexes along a different plane than the four fingers and sits on its own deviant metacarpal. Drawing the hand in perspective is hard enough, but adding the thumb in relation to the rest of the hand at a convincing angle? Forget about it!

Hands are typically simplified into box and cylinder forms, but almost every part of the hand is a combination of angles and curves. No one simplified form really describes these parts.

Hands interact with other objects, like all the time. They’re tricky enough to draw on their own… this isn’t helping anyone.

Hands have a lot of bony landmarks, veins, and tendons, all visible at the surface level. These are obstacles when trying to render them realistically.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

I think that about covers the major issues we face when trying to draw hands. Now here are some observations and facts that you can use to fight back!

The width of the first three fingers (index, middle and ring) is the same as the width of the wrist. The pinky and thumb both emanate from the parts of the palm that overhang this line.

The palm of the hand is more of a pentagon than a rectangle (Thanks, Jim Lee!).

The length of the middle finger is approximately the same as the length and width of the palm.

The length of the phalanxes (finger bones in this case) diminishes in size as they get further from the palm. The second (middle) phalanx is 2/3 the length of the first (proximal), and the third (distal) is 2/3 the length of the second. You don’t really notice this since the first knuckle is “inside” the palm and we tend to think of the fingers as starting at the “finger crotch”.

The thumb has no middle phalanx, only a proximal and a distal one.

The thumb is rotated 90 degrees from the angle of the four fingers. So the fingernails point “up” and the thumbnail points “to the side”. This obviously changes depending on the pose, but the thumbnail never really points “up” with the other fingernails unless it is bent backwards, as in poses when all five fingers are pressed against a flat surface. It never really points “down” unless the hand is clamping or pinching… or operating a sock puppet.

The thumb has to sit lower than the palm so that it can flex underneath the hand. The first knuckle of the thumb is almost as far below the index finger as the pinky is far away from the index finger.

The “webbing” of the thumb connects exactly half way up the palm.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

That is all the knowledge I have so far, and now you have it too! I don’t think any tutorial, video or otherwise, can ever teach you as much as the thousand observations you will make from drawing a thousand hands. There is no substitute for practice. So practice by looking at your hand from the normal vantage point, and from a mirror. Practice from 3D reference like the Handy Art Tool. Practice by copying other artists and animators whose hands appeal to you. Most of all, practice from imagination. PRACTICE! Below is every reference that I can remember that I’ve personally used while practicing hands:

http://www.handyarttool.com/

http://youtu.be/BAQb-5VKxmg

http://nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/mini-hand-tutorial-68320552

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-321600866

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-2-322546252

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-3-330102275

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-reference-4-428109721

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hand-reference-part-three.html

Do me a favor and share this around, will you? We could all use more light shed on this subject. -Aaron

ahhh feeling much better now…. i approached these drawings wrongly.ll i went straight to it, without any warm ups and or going slow and doing proper construction ahaha…l no wonder it fell apart.

Ah fck this.,, art is so hard.,,, it’s so frustrating :’ like I wanted to create some fanart for my ship and it was sooo hard……… I can’t even…,. There’s so much in realising I have to learn ahahah….. (sob) oh man. This shit is so hard n annoying. The frustration I felt while attempting too…. :’ I wanted to give up so badly aahahha.

waaa….!!!! so many comics made!!!!! im so<3333

and heh… majority from today…

back to poses…<3

at least we ended this day on good note about mm angel boy face :’

—I didn’t think I was going to figure stuff, like I did want to but I couldn’t be bothered to get up and do it… and then I saw this art video that was going on about time posed poses and I got to somehow to doing it and these were really fun…!!!!! It was good since it brought up poses I don’t usually do… like a lot of back ones ahaha… and interesting angles….

—and glaring thing I noticed is man im not good at quick proportions like that…. :/ and so I wanted to focus on that and lol my legs was abysmal as usual. so things to work on:

—I honestly was doing that. ways to quickly find portions but it quickly just went into another time posed and I forgot to mention but I was trying to also look at center lines… since it’s establishes the pose quite quickly… also in the corner I tried to just do a pose from imagination and ARM!!!! ANOTHER PROBLEM!!!!

anyways I kind of wanted to focus on legs properly… but really………….it was all over the place…………..ha……………

—as you can see I tried to focus on the satorius(?) or however you spell it muscle but kinda gave up on that after a bit and went back to pelvis lolllll. this session wasn’t very successful djfjfjjf or even going in any direction it was very ??? but I guesss i was trying to find a way to draw the legs and it’s rhythms based on videos I watched but ehhhhh.

—with the pelvis it was a disappointing you couldn’t move the 3D models so like it was at an angle at in front view… but I found a way around it….? where I take a pic of the front of view and angle it…. and well I tried tht…

—and very funny how I thought this was some kind of breakthrough but like lol it’s just too much work….. but I do want to keep it in mind I guess… it’s something I work back on when just checking stuff or etc.

—we’re back to our guy. and okay around 12 I did go to him to draw a bit and immediately gave up ahahah. and when I came back 2200 I was like fine time to bring in the tracing shit and helpppp it was still terrible 💀💀💀💀💀

—BUT FINALLY… THIS PAGE…. I DID IT!!!!!!! MANAGED IT!!!!!! Did a first trace over and tried to try myself and saw what I was doing around and how he typically has a more narrow and wider face…. and he has big pupils and how the outer part of his eye shape is larger then instead… and finally got the whole small mouth and how from mouth the jaw kinda starts and the POINTY!!!! CHIN!!!! and afterwards I tried to fix a prev art I did to this knowledge I had now… it turned out eh the fix since lol it’s hard to fix already finished stuff like that…! but wow I was so happy and like fcking FINALLY that it worked. like look… :’ he looks more like Ian now ahhhhh finallyyyyy. IT ALL PAID OFF!!!! THE TEARS N BLOOD!!!! :’ and I think that what really helped is that wide to narrow chin to remember since I typically draw my faces more narrow and straighter…

alright I have to say it’s kind of funny that I have been wanting to do some lil art like figure pracs but honestly couldn’t be bothered to try to, just no energy/want for it. but as soon as I opened MM to reread for fic purposes…. I got the urge to draw them….!

—okay to be honest… I already wanted got urges to draw the characters before while reading but I was in my Art Needed Break then sooooo. time to do so now and OH MY GOD. I want to squeeze Ian cuz my guy why the f was so diff to draw :’ I wanted to cry at one point but also I do like how pretty he is… n that eyelash… I love drawing his eyes… too… and I think(?) I’ve finally got the hang of drawing him…

—and HA…. the problem really lines on how tch this art style (not really trying to copy the artsyle but get close to it to get more likeness of characters….) and yeah it is hard to get… also it doesn’t help the hair are like complicated shit. well more complicated than the scribbles I do 😫 I think I might have to actually study to do the hair properly 😔 but I at least I got the gist of it……?

—also I do think it’s funny how it took me more than one face drawing to try and get Ian sort of right but lol with sliver boy, I drew him once and was like…?! I already felt like I got the likeness. that was pretty funny. I mean I kinda did feel like I got likeness sort offff for angel boy but hmmmmmmm. it was yknow not enough. also I think it was hard trying to capture for him the feeling of his which was like “narrow/pointy/small” and not to mention the bumps that the artists likes to use…

—also his eyes are pretty hard to get down, I mean I kinda got the gist but it’s different when drawing it with the face. I feel like my separate lil eye studies were better… either way. looking at some fanart, I realised that it’s fine…?! anyways if I don’t get it alll right. it’s cool. I think I just need to get the hair exactly right or more right and that’s fine 😌. I drew him without looking at the source and yknow I think I got him somewhat down also I do think it’s so funny seeing the both of them in together since angel boy looks more finished/pretty then sliver boy LMAO. I guess it’s obvs which one I like drawing more despite how harder it is…. BUT I WILL GET TO YOU SLIVER BOY….

—anyways I think this was fun to do anyways. I don’t usually draw in this style (lol im influenced a lot by naru), but it was fun… and I really do like how the eyes look…. it’s so nice drawing in them… they’re soooo pretty. while🍥 artsyule holds my heart, I have to say ft artsyle is genuinely one of my faves. every time I see it I want so badly draw all the characters!!!! (especially want to get down to drawing dragon fire boy and armour girl!!!!!! ahhhh they’re gonna be so<3 cuz honestly I think that im getting well I wouldn’t say bored but I think that my recent juv stuff isn’t really sparking the same funness as it was in the beginning… I don’t think I’ve really captured what drew and made me love her design so freakin much and just makes me kinda sad ngl… but I WANNA GET THERE ONE DSY!!!! also man I really have to draw armour!!!!!!! girl!!!!! her design is just. idk WHAT it is but second fav… I think it’s just her general vibe ahhhhhh… also weirdly. I love dragon fire boy for his hair 💀 me? wanting to draw something? for hair? yeah I know NDJDKKD but I really love how hair…… I honestly did draw these two (dragon fire boy n armour girl years ago but ah sadly I lost those art but I remember drawing them…..) anyways yeahhhh….!!!!! im excited to get them I mean. I did doodle in dragon fire boy during ft doodle session but it wasn’t really proper stuff.

—to not get derailed: I’ve been only drawing MM faces to get used to it and it’s been really just straight on to…. Like yeahhhh I drew side view and 3/4 which uhhhhh wasn’t great but yeahhhh I probs should prac that but cba too. Also I kinda want to more draw them in poses…… I kinda have general idea of a scene to draw….. but also cba to do that right now. my energy is low. I probs should get back to rereading and lol to that fic’ing idea… 8.44 also ahhh I do want to get back to my onoe face prac (I WILL GET HIM DOWN) so I can draw one of my fav otps ever hehehe and be the only person in fandom lmaooooo. 8.45

today’s art:

—okay so I just did really VIDEOS!!!! and then went to through this rabbit hole and found.. well I guess first I should start with. I really needed to learn how arm connects to the shoulder asince I think I just forgot????and my gosh I found this super good comprehensive video that did demonstration and everything. it was really good

—honestly after that I went through rabbit hole of seeing his other videos and then well… I found this super long skull video and was watching and then it started to do a draw with me sides of skull and I did want to follow through so I just decided to do that later when I could draw with… and well then.. I just went off to do other stuff

—i don’t plan on drawing today and if i was, probs just general studies but ahaha i was on x and it really inspired to draw my otp and SO I PLANNED TO. but then it turned into redraw of someone else’s art and then into prac ahahah.

—the first one wasn’t great at all… and I just wanted to focus on the pose instead!!! and see what I was doing wrong etc. One of videos I watched made me think about that. Talking about focusing on analytic and like looking at what you drew and finding out what you did wrong and etc. And I do think that was good thing to be aware off and so I did that… and well even if I don’t think the last one turned out amazing or anything I do think it made me realise stuff. like how in the pose it was the arm that was stretching out to the knee…

—and so since I liked doing this n thought was fun/nice I did another pose study! And oh man the hands were HARD tin this one I still have no idea on how to fix it and just gave up in the end lolllllllll. Arms. Arms were hard. Why do I keep saying hands when im talking about arm lollll

—but one think I did realise that I was doing wrong was when drawing lower part, in trying to get the legs right, I forgot about the butt that was actually sitting down. and cut it off since the crouch wouldn’t be visible… and so it was helpful in remembering stuff like that. and trying to visual posing better: like it made next time to remember to think of whole pose and how it interactions with whatever it’s doing and even bits that can’t be seen. like being aware of stuff like that is really important.

—and well after that wasn’t feeling like doing any more pose studies and well… I SKETCHED IN THE IDEA FOR THE COMIC I HAD???? very happy about that

—okay lol I did think of doing some kind of script but cba to and was keeping in mind this comic tips/tutorial I came by that stuck with me yesterday. for first panel I very obviously can’t draw backgrounds and just couldn’t be bothered to look up refs and just scribbled in general idea I had for it. and for the next one I tried hard to make sure my figure was reading well (to me) like the general idea I wanted for it and later in did feel in general idea of background which im happy about.

—the initial idea that started this was the next two panels. ahaha I really just wanted to draw him being tied. can’t believe they did that. I mean I can but still lololol. and I do like the close up in next panel from diff angle. also this made me concious of how expressions ain’t my strong suit lmaoooo.

—and well after that is where things started to fall apart. like I had general idea in my head of what I wanted but I feel like the pacing n etc wasn’t great at all but I think it was good to get the general idea and everything tdown… so im happy that I actually sketched in the idea for comic. soooo happy. ^^

—and welllll remember juv art from yesterday. I realised after a bit that she doesn’t like she was sitting at all lololol despite that being intention. cuz I feel like I was so focused on getting the length of leg correct that I forgot that she was sitting so her knee would be higher. and well. I just wanted to fix that.

—added a bench because why not. and honestly im…..not sure that I did fix it completely. It still seems off…? but ehhhh i got her to look like she was sitting so that’s a win.

—I wasn’t planning to draw anymore but while taking screenshot for this post…I ended up just drawing some figure pracs and ahahah these didn’t go well at all. it was alright. But like mabnnnn even while keeping in mind what the video said (the dots around the arm meaning to represent scapula so just to keep in mind while drawing the arm) but ehhjhhhb I feel like like my arms isn’t at alll good. like I feel like I just forgot everything. so I think it’s best to watch videos of people drawing …. that always helps.

—and well but I didn’t want to end it there and wanted to draw something nice……to finish the the day with… something that would feel nice about. and yeah no that didn’t happen. 😔😔😔

—I thought while it’s been a while since I drew my lil srda too<3 I should do it but yeah no. it went horribly. well that’s kind of an exaggeration. more like I just…? don’t like….? I think it might have to do with the brush and how out of prac I man with drawing her hair… cuz man I have def drawn better srdas in my time. I feel like it might be her expression so. I changed it but it wasn’t. So I did an overdraw just because but it wasnt lollll. and I do think it’s funny how her expression gets more sadder. like the way I felt (more disappointed) when drawing it LMAO

I actually like the first one drew the most…… 😔😔😔

I do wanna continue for tmmr ^^ and hopefully draw more of the characters I want for my art goal and do try that smol simple comic idea I had…. that would help with background+comic prac but also I feel like it would be good to just take a day off. even if it might bad in long term. I just feel like taking a day off.

WHAT A DAY TODAY WAS!!! VERY FULLFIED N HAPPY N PROUD N ALSO MIX OF I WANT TO GET BETTER AHHH….. :’

— I got back into ft and was doodling characters and then had sudden urge to draw a more finished piece… and i decided this time to use a ref. it helped with idea and giving a base base for the male but I didn’t want to copy the pose one to one so I changed stuff and ahaha well. it wasn’t easy. and by god, the LEGS. Legs really a Big Weakness of mine. this one was soooo hard to try to get right. the struggle… at one point I was really just gonna crop to hide the legs but I didn’t want to do that.

— also as you can see from the last and before last pic… I also realised another thing that “felt” off was lol that the entire pic was tilted… another thing I’m realising that I have a problem with my works. I tend to tilt stuff. so something to work on. I feel like there’s some kind of tilt…. still…

— I’m not completely satisfied with the legs and also my god. the arms was very hard too…. :’ BUT MAN. FORGETTING ALL THAT!!!! It’s so. So. Satisfying to look at this omg. I’m sooooo happoyyyy. And can’t believe. I really do want to more finish this piece… I honestly don’t have more finishing pieces which is what I want to have. Like disappointed prev I only have doodles and figure prac stufd to look back at. That’s why I have this goal to do more “bad” finished art. So that I can look back and clearly see my progress also just. There’s this endearness in having seeing your old art that you worked hard one :’

— anyways man after riding this high I needed to create more shit!!!!! so I DID. I had an idea and went right into it:

—and let me tell you, I seriously felt like crying when I drawing the more cleaned up version because my gosh, it’s so so so nice to be able to have this image you want ONTO THE PAPER. it’s something I struggled so hard with and now HERE I AM. oh my godddd. it feels SO FREAKIN NICE. I’m so happyyyy so so happyyy SO UNBELIEVABLY HAPPY :’ :’ :’ this is also another reason I want to create more finished pieces ahhhhhhh

— also lmao I didn’t realize while trying to clean up the initial sketch but oh wow when I utilized the canvas flip, I was like wtf? Why is the drawing so tilted and omg seeing them beside by beside lolololol.

—also initially this one was meant to be a simple character holding umbrella up… but I’ve been watching fixing art videos lately and composition ones and learned some stuff and thought it would be fun to incorporate and oh man it’s been so fun as I builded up the illustration. thinking about the beside it. first I was gonna go with flowers framing but I felt like it was too much circly stuff especially with the umbrella unique shape… so I went with curtain blowing… and ahaha I have this whole cool idea to add in when…

— I realized wtf, curtains aren’t on the outside but inside.., sIGH. I would like to ignore that and continue to draw it but :/ unfortunately I can’t 😭😭😭 it’s gonna BOTHER me. but I think I got an idea to still keep the initial idea. Also I do want to make changes still… the og sketch composition feels so much better with the curtain blowing… also as I was drawing I did realize wtf I don’t know how to draw curtain fabric… so I went hunting for refs and. Ahhh I do really like that part of process — I don’t know. It just feels more fun. Like I feel like a proper artist if that even makes sense…

— in middle of all that, ahahah, I really had this sudden urge to add color and so tried. and yeah, I suck at it but also it did help greatly with the what I felt like clothing lost…. like with the wrinkles/folds 💀💀💀 soooo hard to find any side ref for it I was losttt and I do like what the colour adds even if it’s not the best… there’s a lot to change n add to this piece and I do hope I get around to it…

— also a shame but I feel like with the trying to keep the tilt the right way, I lost some of the dynamicness the og sketch had awww. and honestly cba to try and change stuff around. who knows MAYBE I will get to. but honestly looking back at other wips I have from dec ahahahab. I Doubt it. But whatever.

— and of course after this I wanted to CREAT MORE STUFF!!!! And I did had this idea and well….

ahaha yeah. Didn’t go so well

— the problem was. well. I rushed too fast into it. I mean, yeah. I did have idea in my head into what I wanted but it’s another thing trying to get it onto paper. the last one was diff since it’s a just side pose that I practiced a lot so it wasn’t a struggle to get down. the struggle was mostly the clothes n stuff. but this one is more complicated and I just had a image. I should have sketched out roughly and also considered the hands more. like a issue I noticed I have is that: I think of the one hand that’s doing something but then the other one I have noooo. clue to do with

— anyways after that I just couldn’t bother to proper with this one and left it, like going back to it some other time ahahah.

— next one up 💞💞

—this time I went back to refs, and saw this one and wanted to draw and ahahah I changed it completely. the only thing I took from was the way they were close and the way the guy was grabbing the girls’ face. everything else. real estate world.

— and ngl I was loosing some hope/feeling disappointed n sad around here n frustrated too… like sighhhh I did feel like I forgot shit but I’m realizing now I really didn’t…? More like my structure to starting sucks. The foundation ain’t strong. But I was completely changing the ref and challenging myself, since the ref they were sitting and I struggled with trying to get them to feel they were interacting

— bring the girl closer didn’t really do anything… other than make the pose weirder and I did want to be able to see more of her arm then I had a revelation: what if I made the guys body more side profile. haha I did felt a bit fhdjjdk erasing n changing the position of guy completely but it was kind of fun in a way. made me feel like a real artist heheh heheh. and OH BOY IT MADE THE PIECE SO MUCH !!!!!!! like LOOK!!!! the DIFF!!!!

— it made me get excited for it more…. and lol the legs again… I felt like it would be boring to make it too straight but don’t really know how to make it diff…..

— but anyways right now very happy with how it’s coming along and kinda dreading having to add clothes and do expressions. for the guy anyways. the girl’s expression is already down ahaha…

— as you can see at this point, I didn’t really do at all. or more I didn’t at all do any figure parc and honestly I didn’t even want to…. It pales so much to how much fun this stuff is but I did feel like I needed to get back to it. Cuz my foundation also I need to work on gesture and look at the legs more closely as I draw and the arms too..,,.

— and I did have this new idea for another piece to do and this one will def will be a challenge. but one thing i started to be consciously be aware of even as I was picturing this new idea: is to think of how the other arm would behave and the space and how the characters are turned towards each other and the space they hold…. This one will be quite ambitious since loolol they will be four characters 💀 and HOPEFULLY will add in a background too…. I have some idea in my head about the space n the poses…

— while doing the figure pracs, I did doodle an general idea of how I wanted the first two characters to be interacting and ahahah yeahhh it didn’t come out greatttt. but I thought it would be a lil better than that so it was honestly disappointing but it’s okay…. I can practice also did help to realize to not put a lot of expection into how this turns out but that’s also a kind of struggle since ha….. I already have this nice image in my head 😔😔😔 gonna be so disappointed if comes out So Badly. But also not surprised since after all this is a very ambitious piece for me… ahahah………….