Additional fun fact: Domestic cats have slit pupils, large cats have round pupils. What about in-between cats like the lynx? They’re an intermediate – ovals!
when you don’t do a warm up and go straight into lineart and your hand does the thing
Thats a sign of inflammation of the wrist called carpel tunnel . I had surgery because it got so bad I couldn’t draw anymore.
Yikes D8.
That’s why it’s so important to do stretches and draw with your whole arm (ok, arguably hard with a tablet versus a big gorgeous easel) and etc but I forgot today bc I am a moron and it was great
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people warm up to draw? like… how?
not an artists but climbing hand and lower arm exercises;
trying to find more and better diagrams for other stretches but yeah it’s super important if your gonna be using your arms a lot.
Adding this important video for all the artists out there, take care of your hands ♥
always start off with simple shapes, trying to tackle complex shapes from the start will skew proportions
– to start guideline sketches, i usually make a box for the palm, then drawing the thumb as reference, and then adding the rest of the fingers
FINGER NAILS ARE YOUR FRIEND, DONT BE AFRAID TO DRAW THEM!!! THEY ADD PERSPECTIVE, CHARACTER, AND DEPTH TO YOUR HANDS!!! I LOVE DRAWING FINGER NAILS
GO HAM!!!!!!!!!!!
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GET GOOD AT DRAWING HANDS JUST WATCH MOB PSYCHO 100 HONESTLY LMAO…. even if the hands arent proportional to real life, the movement and gesture can REALLY REALLY HELP
AND DRAWING FROM REFERENCE AND OBSERVATION IS YOUR BEST ADVICE
Chartreuse Abstruseness Export 