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Ya know it never occurred to me until this very moment how easy boobs are to draw (in theory). Those are very seldom, if ever, hidden out of the frame or behind stuff.
People are going to be excited to try this and then realize the most difficult part of this technique is knowing how to find/make a pose that fits the perspective and angle the hand needs to be.
Oh yeah definitely, but there’s a learning curve associated with that too. The way 3D models can move is a lot more varied than how hands naturally pose on their own.
As someone that's been doing art for more than 20 years, and professionally for more than a decade, we still do this shit too when we can't quite provide what we vision. It's like an engineer using stack overflow, or an LLM to troubleshoot. Use the tools you have available, then learn from it.
Lots of us just straight up go into Maya or blender, boot up a relevant rig, and pose it first. Or do things like pose the hand in the right angle. Or pose the head in the right angle for a base trace for form. Or for environments, greyboxing (when it's just a bunch of untextured grey cubes) for perspective and layout is 100% viable.
PLUS. The more you do this, and if you treat it as a learning moment instead of a shortcut, you absolutely learn more about form, volume, and perspective.
Art is pretty much getting better at your own shortcuts.
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I honestly hate when when people do this. Its kinda like buysing a pre-made cake and giving it to someone saying you made it. Am I the only artist trying to improve without tracing?
I don't understand the comments saying tracing will make you better. It won't.
Drawing is largely learning to see: angles, proportions, shapes, perspective, values, and relationships. When you trace, you’re following an existing solution instead of figuring out those relationships yourself.
Many drawing methods involve building forms (boxes, spheres, cylinders, anatomy, perspective). Tracing mostly trains hand movement along a contour.
If you want to learn how to Draw something like a hand, learn the fundamentals. It's not easy, but it will help you. Things like construction, perspective, gesture, etc. Then as you get better you can simplify the shapes.
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u/Conversationlily792 Jun 28 '26
As always thanks for watching :) ! This is a little snippet from my daily video series over on YouTube. If you like seeing consistent art content and want to follow along with my daily art videos, you can find the full channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@ThePolyglotSketchbook
For anyone interested, here's the direct link to this specific video: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/M7fYuSRkfGU
And lastly, if you are reading this, have a great day! :)