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Quick drawing exercise for anyone - even absolute beginners - to help draw one of the hardest human elements to draw, the hand.(streamable.com)

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Tom_Bombadil 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun 4 years ago

Thanks for the easy lesson...

That's the equivalent if saying, "Juggling is easy; all you have to do is this!"

[deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun 4 years ago

Why is this funny :( I thought it was cool! I always had trouble with hands.

This is a good base to build hand gestures off of, or to make hands hold things as well, too! After you've set-up the hand, you can really play around with it's foundation if you're uncomfortable with picturing it in your mind's eye like I am. I found it super helpful when I first came across it.

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JasonCarswell 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun 4 years ago

It seems simple, but the proportions for this trick have to be dead on.

This, in my professional opinion (as an artist, animator, and creative director), is a clever trick and won't really help anyone to draw hands.

Unfortunately there really are no shortcuts to "quick drawing". If you think I'm wrong, I dare you to try doing the illustration of the video and I guarantee you it won't be nearly as good.

Proper study and understanding of proportions, forms, perspective, anatomy, and all the fundamentals of illustration are critical.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Bridgeman's+anatomy&iar=images