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Nikikomangaka — Hand Tutorial 1
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ok! My hand tutorial! -^_^- I hope this helps a lot I know I still have problems with hands and feet. They are the hardest things to draw if you ask me! Anyway continuing onStep 1- Here all I did was do some line gestures. I drew a circle to represent the wrist then drew lines to the knuckles and I included the bends of the fingers and thumb. All this with just a line. I also included what some people like to call "Sight lines" These are lines that you use to represent angles like the angle of the line that is from one finger tip to the next.
Step 2 - This is my favorite part. Here I looked at the hands I was drawing and saw all kinds of different shapes! I sketched in all these shapes. That's really what the body is just a lot of shapes formed by bones and muscles. If you can see these different shapes then it helps! I also did what some people call "Cross Contour" On the arm in the middle. This is when you draw a line across part of a body in order to give it volume.
Step 3- Here is where I went through and have started outlining my shapes.How this isn't something that is easy to find. it took me a little while to find the right shape for the lines but the shapes help a lot. Another great thing to use these shapes for is shading although I wasn't able to get to that point with this tutorial I will cover it in another in the future!
-^_^- I hope this helps! Hands are really hard! I still have a way to go!
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It takes a lot and lot of practice. Just think of the shapes that make up the hand instead of thinking of the outline for it. I used to draw a box and then draw lines for the individual fingers. After I drew the lines I would draw the oval shapes that make up the different sections in the fingers. I also had a lot of figure drawing classes where I would have to draw 25 hands in a sketchbook by the end of the semester so the more you practice the better you will get.
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I could really use this. Hands are so very difficult.
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They really are but if you think about the shapes that make up the hand it makes it much easier to draw. Sometimes I will ask one of my friends if I can draw their hand and if they don't mind if I draw some shapes on their hand wiht a ballpoint pen. That tends to help me out a lot when it comes to drawing them.
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lol I don't know if I would draw shapes on an actual hand, but I'll still try using shapes for drawing hands.
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Just remember not to press down too hard when you are drawing the shapes so you can erase t hem away later.
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No problem 
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AAAAhh! You really helped me with this! Thank you so much! XD
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You are so very welcomed
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You are very welcomed -^_^- If you need help with anything else just send me a note!
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No problem! I like making tutorials. I am hoping to one day teach! I had so much fun being a teachers assistant in college for a figure drawing class.I knew that I wanted to teach college classes one day -^_^-
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lol silly think want to improve and maybe ill teach someone one day
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my my...interesting method i might have to try this :3
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Yes I hope you do. It is a nice way to try drawing hands. I tend to draw from real life sometimes.. X.x trying to twist my hand into the position I need so doing quick gestures of the shapes can help me out a lot. -^_^- Let me know if the style works for you or not.
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i do that sometimes too..it helps but sometimes it's just not enough and usually my hands end up looking like forks XD
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lol I understand I had that problem for a long time until I started drawing all the shapes in the hand... I also tend to look at my friends and say "You aren't using your hands tonight right? Good because I need them so stay still for a few hours and I will buy you dinner" lol
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lol XD i usually did the same thing with my friends and give em a cookie afterwards..sometimes i'd even have them hand model for me in class until we got in trouble of course but my teacher did tell me it is simple geometry *shrugs*
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lol I did the same thing in High school... except I got in trouble for drawing caricatures of my teachers... doing.. funny things lol
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XD i did that too but i made them like really really gross creature thingys
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Oh that would have been much better! lol mine actually looked like my teachers riding clown bikes or doing really stupid stuff lol that's how I got in trouble because I always made it look like them... so they could always tell wow I really wasn't thinking too well about that lol
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haha if i were your teacher i would of laughed XD i actually made one of my teachers cry and she asked me if she really looked like that to me and i always said yes lol
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OH my ghosh! You made her cry? Wow.. What kind of monster that you draw her as?
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You've seen alien vs predator right? Well i made her look like a cross breed between one of those aliens and jaba the hut XD
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OMG lol I bet it looked great though! I am sure she wasn't happy about it but I bet it was an awesome drawing. I find it really hard to draw monsters.
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I know right 
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oh wow! You should find it and post it I really want to see! I am not all that great at doing monsters X.x don't know why they always look too gentle or not mean at all lol I try really hard too but it just doesn't work out.
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heheh all right i'll link it to you too XD
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Wow, thats really helpful. I never tried the "sight lines" before, something I must try. Thanks for posting this!
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You are welcome! They really help with perspective to! Like when you are drawing a full figure you find the angle of the line from their shoulder to knee. I will see if I can't do an entire tutorial just on that. They helped me out a lot when I first learned about them"!
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Yes, that would be really awesome ! ^^
Having the lines as a sort of reference for perspective makes sense, I never even thought of it before. X0
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yes! You know how you always see the artists in movies using their thumbs or their pencils while closing one eye? That is them finding the site lines! -^_^-
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Yes! I have seen that, I just had no idea what it was XD
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lol! Yes I didn't either. I just thought it was a "crazy artists syndrome" or something. It wasn't until I took my first figure drawing class that I figured it out! It all made sense!
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Haha, yes, me to!
I am taking a figure drawing class that actually starts next week, so I guess I will be learning more about that! ^0^
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yes! I love figure drawing! that is what I would love to teach! -^_^- I modeled for classes for about four years and kind of became the teachers assistant. She would ask me to come and sit in on her beginning classes with her and critique people. It was a lot of fun.
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Wow, you modeled? I don't think I could do that XD
Thats really cool, you would get lots of experience in teaching that way ^0^
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Yes! It was great seeing how all of the students were doing. The teacher was great! She always knew what to say and how to model stuff for people. It was a lot of fun modeling. It built my confidence big time! It was such a great experience and I would be willing to do it again.
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That is great! My art teacher last semester was very... eccentric. I haven't had that much experience with that sort of thing... glad to here there are some goods ones.
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Yes there are a few.. then there are some that just are horrible. I had my painting teacher yell at me in college. She was very cruel but it taught me a lot about a real world situation. Not everyone is always going to like you or your art work. You just have to be able to somehow deal with it and move on.
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I just don't understand how people can be like that to their students... I have a cousin who was called an idiot in front of the whole class by an art teacher... But yea, I guess it would help with that.
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Yes. I know it seems really hard when you are going through a situation like that. It feels very unfair that any teacher would do that but at the same time real life is not fair so it's a good way to prepare for what happens once you get completely out of school.
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Very true. All experiences like that are for a reason I suppose, like you said, they would help when you are out of school and have a job. You never know what your boss might be like.
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Yes. I have actually been in the work force since I was 13. I have had many bosses. A lot of times they would just use me. I worked for a floral department for five years where I was doing all the manager's jobs while she did nothing but make floral arrangements. When I quit because I was moving for school she was fired about six months after that because she didn't know how to do her job because she had me doing it for so long. She even made me go to the company manager meetings for her. It was crazy. She was getting the salary while I was getting the hourly. X.x
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I don't know what to say, that sounds insane.
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