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Published: 2007-09-21 10:23:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 71426; Favourites: 592; Downloads: 1045
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Sept 2007, Bic on Xerox PaperAnd then he went crazy and drew his hand over and over...
For anyone who carries through with the lessons, feel free to post them, I won't cry foul for copying, etc. So long as you don't post it as your own tutorial - and giving credit is always nice.
HERE'S MY OTHER TUTORIAL ON FEMALE ANATOMY: [link]
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So much to take in. But this is possibly one of the best tutorials about hands out here.
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thanks. I think the format of the tut is good, but I need better drawings. Especially things like the bones and veins. They're just guesswork, based on drawings from Hogarth, who I've heard wasn't that accurate afterall. I'll look into ordering some models to draw from.
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your contributions are greatly appreciated. you're an art educator...are you not?
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By training. At the moment I'm teaching English language learners in Europe. There's not much work out there for artists these days.
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Agreed. Good luck teaching and thanks for those tutorials.
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you're welcome! Remember the best way to learn is through personal study.
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plz plz plz plz plzzzzzzzzzzz..................... make a tutroial on human male anatomy ^_^ plzzzz!!!!!
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I plan to but it'll take years.
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thank you for this amazing reference! i always had trouble with drawing hands. i will definitely be using this in the future!! thanks again! ~fav
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you're welcome. Man, all these tutorials need an update so bad...
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Yeah. I may do a new one soon. It kinda depends though. Getting the flash stuff together is the real problem. I don't know how much I remember!
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thanks, this is rather helpful. Ironically you mentioned on of the books I inherited a while back, so I'm going to look into it.
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wow it helped alot, would you mind if i drew my own version of one of the pics in the tutorial?
do you do any other tutorials, i would like to see one about ears, they confuse me
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There was a good tut that had some ear sketches, I think by KChen on conceptart.org
Look that up, under the Crit forum and then tutorial-subforum. It's around there somewhere. Mostly just do some observational drawings.
You can copy any of this so long as you link me 
I have one tutorial on drawing women, and a couple on oil pastels.
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thanks! I really don't but thanks, it feels good to hear it.
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no for realz you rock
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Thank you, again. Just like your female anatomy one, this has helped me tremendously!!!!
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youre welcome [link]
Satisfied
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Incredibly helpful tutorial. Thanks! Are feet on the menu?
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lol. I want to photo iva wearing boots, as feet are even harder with them on. I need to add some more sketches to this. Did you see my tutorial for women?
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Yes I have. I think you linked it on forumsx. It was also quite helpful.
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I just want to say thank you for a very usefull tutorial! You must have put a lot of work into this.
I don't realy feel that ther's something missing from this. From this point on it should be the readers dedication to draw better that should do the rest of the job.
Nice job
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great tutorial you have here, always liked drawing hand.
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really helpfull tutorial! I find it very difficult to draw hands and feet
also, Happy birthday! Yay!
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This is by far the most in depth and well discussed "How to" on hands on DA, and for the web for that matter. I have seen many many books on how to draw, and hands, are by far one of the hardest things to realistically draw.
Your knowledge is almost scary. This is so amazing.
Well done Well done
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the funny thing is I left out some stuff I need to add. Like each finger has a ball socket that allows for rotation... Thanks alot, though, your comment's the main reason I work so hard to do these tutorials. It's a kind of vindication for me.
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Very helpful tutorial on hand work. I've never succeeded!
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Wow dude this is totally awsome and helpfull!
Excellent
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o wow you must have put some time into that. keep it up ^^
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Hands have always been a struggle for me... and the hands in this tutorial are so well drawn...I'm going to fav this and look back at it for sure.
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This is extremely useful
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I really like most how you gave examples on complex hand positions & perspectives. Very useful indeed
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nice tutorial! I'm bookmarking this page and 
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amazing tutorial, very well covered. It's so nice to see an anatomy tutorial that actually shows the underlying bone and muscle structure in detail. I'm really impressed with how you made notes of the appearance of veins and natural grooves in the hand. I know many people (myself included) seem to forget these things
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it's not even that important really, compared to the basic shapes. but thank you very much!
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Incredible tutorial. Very well written and well thought out. I enjoyed the accompanying sketches. You'd have made DaVinci happy
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I'm sure he'd have corrections, but thank you!
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Really well explained
You should do more of this, they're realy helpful
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