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Took me 2 hours to draw one hand holding a coffee cup, almost quit twice
Was doodling at my kitchen table last night and decided to sketch my left hand holding my mug. Sounds easy right? Except every thumb I drew looked like a fat banana and the fingers kept coming out like sausages. I erased the whole thing at least 8 times and my paper got so smudged I had to start a fresh page in my cheap Walmart sketchbook. Finally just traced the outline of my actual hand with a pencil and went from there, which felt like cheating but hey it worked. How do you all handle hands, do you use reference photos or just wing it every time?
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sullivan.spencer4d ago
Tracing your own hand isn't cheating, that's just using a live model and every art teacher I ever had told us to do exactly that. Winging it from memory is why your thumbs look like bananas, so grab a reference photo next time instead of fighting it for two hours.
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