I can't believe the art community still struggles with the "using reference is cheating" discourse. Every industry professional, all famous artists from the past use and have used references. My art improved so much after I started using them. Great tutorial, I also take photos of my hand but hadn't thought of adjusting them with liquify ^^

@HorseyShark

2 жыл бұрын

People who are against using refrence just want people to fail. Ignore the 'em.

@seichanhalliwell4734

2 жыл бұрын

Actually the "it's ok to use references, even encouraged" trend is relatively recent. In the art community 10-15 years ago it was an unspeakable crime to say you referenced, and you were shunned from most "pro" art forums. I remember watching a Loish livestream (which should be on her youtube too) and she specifically remembers the same fact as well. Using references and drawing "pretty girls" were crimes and you were not considered a true artist if you did them. Ironical how the past couple years saw a shift towards a healthy view regarding using reference :)

@bearkizses

2 жыл бұрын

its not abt reference its just tracing over printed out images whether they be sketches or real hands. Its not good to clutch on that forever without trying yourself and call it art.

@cryocorn

2 жыл бұрын

@@bearkizses r.i.p still-life painters

@user-nu5gt2hk8d

2 жыл бұрын

@@HorseyShark ึ้ีทท

OH MY GOD THE PRODUCTION VALUE ASKJDFLAKJSDLKJ so goodddd 😭

I needed all of this when I was a new artist, I’m so glad it’s out here now for others who are new right now. It’ll help them TONS. Thank you Laovaan

@chonlatiphokkhunthod8270

2 жыл бұрын

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@Psychopath369_

Жыл бұрын

@@chonlatiphokkhunthod8270 ..

The fact that Eren is on the thumbnail 🤩❤️ TATAKAE

The begining. But thanks! I've been really struggling with hands recently and BOOM! This amazing notification rung.

THANK YOU! Most other videos just make a straight resting hand and we rarely use that for drawing so thank you

I look at my hand at certain angles and sometimes use my imagination to try to see how hands would work and construct simple basic shapes off of that. I often use 3 palm shapes differentiating based on the perspective of the hand and I usually just freestyle the fingers, but I should use more references. Thank you for being an amazing teacher!

@charlesrodriguez7984

2 жыл бұрын

Same. Though I use references more and that helps me a lot

@IsaacBisaac

2 жыл бұрын

Same here but when it comes to more specific hand shapes I usually use a reference for it 😄

Man you are amazing. You not only showed the problems everyone face not as others face it I am not. I am able to teach them that but as I too face it like all and others like me doing it perfectly. The psychology behind; plus you did it like a challenge and overcome it and how also others should do it too by taking those steps.

@repeekyraidcero

Жыл бұрын

These are a lot of words for "good job"

0:33 I'm just in absolute awe you made that animation.

your shapes one really helped me honestly ive always found drawing hands so excruciating lmao

BEST ‘drawing hands’ tutorial EVER!!! 😃

Clicked for the tutorial,also stayed for Eren

Always happy to see someone recommend using references. I got further within the last year using them than I did during my entire school time (art teacher forbid references cause it's "cheating"). Also recommend using websites like quickposes to train the mental library, at some point references become redundant and you'll intuitively know how to draw it

Thank you that’s much more useful and easy to understand than the other hand drawing videos on yt. trust me, i’ve seen them all.

You and Sycra are carrying the art side of youtube on your back, I stg I've become a better artist with just this video, alone.

you always have the most helpful tutorials! love your art

When I draw hands, I like to do a bit of everything. I first make sketches and then try to find photos to help me achieve the hand I like/need for my drawing. If all else fails I use clip studios 3-d models. it's very helpful.

@IsaacBisaac

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh, I think I might try that; thank you

The intro is everything👌✨haha thank you so much for this my fav artist!!

Thank you so, so much. I’ve been hiding my characters’ hands behind their back or under sleeves lately because I’ve been hesitant. This has helped me want to try harder. 🖤

I’m glad that you do the tracing to figure out the figure and then trying to apply what was traced to your drawing!!!! It’s like you want to use the photo reference as a guidance but still want to help learn and use the tools to draw the hand again in the future

Honey not now Laovaan just dropped a banger of a tutorial

You help me a lot at drawing especially since I started doing digital art

My God, I love your arts so much! Thanks for the tutorial. I was struggling with hands.

I love your tutorials. You speak so gently, it feels like I have a kind teacher guiding me through my art. Thank you!

This is easily the most helpful and practical art tutorial I've seen. Not only did you cover a lot of common mistakes and where they come from, you both explained and directly showed how to actually expand one's "visual library" and make good use of references while working. A huge mental block I was personally running into was less about whether using references was cheating and more about how to actually use them effectively/whether they were even worth it, and your video helped both click almost immediately. Thank you! For anyone scrolling through the comments with a similar mental block, I cannot stress enough just how big of a difference it makes to paste your reference on the drawing itself next to where you're trying to draw. Instead of having to look over from screen to screen to try to figure out what you're even looking at separately from actually drawing it, you're able to do both at the same time, which also helps the "form" of drawing that particular pose stick that much easier in your visual library.

Hands were one of the first things I started practicing when I started drawing people in 2020 so I find I’m not as annoyed by them, same with faces. I still have issues with extremely dynamic poses but it’s easy to understand cause I can just look at my own hands and be like “ oh that’s how that works!” Then translate it into my style. Now full body anatomy, expressions and perspective are currently kicking my ass ngl so I’m trying to force my brain to understand those concepts.

this is LITERALLY WHAT I NEEDED OMG THANK YOU

“How do you approach drawing hands?” Raise your hand if you tend to hide them instead 😅🙋🏻‍♀️ This does get me inspired to practice them though, thank you💕

I've been waiting for this! Waaa, Thank you so much, Laovaan for teaching us these things!!♥️♥️

Yay hand tutorial :DDD thank you again for posting, Laovaan!

I love how relatable this video is, no matter how many tutorials, drawing them from memory is hard

no wayyyy early ,just wanna say i love your videos and it helped me a lot . I had problem drawing hair and a lot of other stuff ,tutorials didnt help until i found yours and then i somehow can draw it lol so thank u for golden content

The intro is the best 😂😂 Thank u for your tips

Thank you so much for the tutorial! I've needed this for a long time. Love your art!

Dude, your hands are really pretty. Congratulations 😰

Thank you! This was very helpful. I really loved the specific example you gave at the end.

Oh HELL yes, I love your tutorials _let's go!_

I feel like I learn so much more from you, than many others I've seen. I don't know, you just seem to understand the struggles more.

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!! You have no idea how much I needed this!!!!! You're amazing btw!

As soon as I was with draw the hands, this video came up. Thank you so much!!!!

pretty happy that I'm not too shabby when it comes to drawing hands

Wow, two uploads this close together?! Thank you so much!!!

Been a lurker for 9 years and been learning from your videos for years Thank you^w^

Your art style is beautiful

You are incredible that intro was amazing

THANKYOU SO MUCHHHH! I love your videosss. They are so helpful!

It was about time!

Thank you so much for your channel. Your videos are so helpful.

whoaa animated!

Thanks, I needed that ❤️

I love your videos, theyre so helpful and have really improved my drawings

a hand tutorialll?!?! omg this is perfect !

The intro shows the problem!!! Thank you for playfully getting into it since it's painful for most to get to it.

Just what I needed

1:46 Best tut for basic hands ever. You can even "perspective bend" that shape and amend the fingers for most poses. Make it 3 dimensional for even better reliability 7:14 Tracing and refing that trace is a possibility... I would recommend drawing hands yourself tho. If you can manage hands. Legs, arms, torso and neck and feet should work too. That only leaves the face. Not a bad forecast.

The drawing looks incredible :o

As a grade 5 artist 🎨 I'm so glad that you made this video you made my months

Always so helpful, thank you!

This gives me so much confidence to keep drawing 😭💖🙏

Yeah I found this out myself too! I take many potential references now and use the best one as Hands are too complex to get without reference. I also think reference is great for all aspects of art!

Tolles Video!!!! Hände sind ja immer so eine Sache, besonders wenn dann noch die Perspektive ins Spiel kommt. Danke dafür 🙏🏻👍🏻🤗🌸

Thank you a lot for the video. Love your style and method. Hugs from Brazil~

your instructions are simple and easy to understand, thankss Kite, first time hearing you have a yt channel

thank you for this guide video🙏

Oh I love your intro so much. Really creative!!

Omg ty!!! This really helps!

I had always cursed clip studio's lack of liquify tool. I had no idea they had added it in an update. So thanks for that.

Looking amazing.. The details are so good!! And even though the process you showed is very nice!! Great job 🔥

Found you on insta, and omg this is so educational! Thank you so much, now I have some place to begin :D

This was the way i was doing it and i thought it was "wrong" so i hoped in this video to see how most people do it. It feels good to know this

so helpful Thanks

Thank you bro ur a life saver

For someone like me who has aphantasia this is very helpful, thank you for this video!

I’m horrible at drawing hands, it’s always the part that takes the most amount of time for me. This video had some pretty good tips so thank you 🙌

this is really helpful! thankss

I use hand references thanks for the video

Finally youre upload

@LaovaanArt

2 жыл бұрын

It has only been two weeks since the last once 😅

Буквально вчера вечером я рисовала новый рисунок и нужно было рисовать руки. В итоге я ПО ПРИВЫЧКЕ сделала несколько фотографий, где отбирала нужное мне положение рук. Просто прекрасно, что метод, который ты используешь для рисования окозывается пользуют в рисовании люди с 10-летнем стажем рисования! (Сама усиленно и вовлеченно рисую только 7-8 лет, иронично сказано 🤣) Спасибо, что пополнили мой багаж знаний по рисованию рук, укрепив выроботанные самостоятельно навыки!

Wow!! Thank you so much dude! Hand is one style I'm struggling. Thank you so much! Worth it to sub to you

Can you explain in future videos how colors work? I think for me at least it's not a problem to choose which one, but I can't get nice colors when I want to make a contrast in drawing between strong light and shadow. And I have a problem with choosing when colors have to be darker for aestetic of drawing

I always forget i have hands and use it not only to draw ... Really helpfull video it's always a pleasure to watch your work, thank you.

god i love your hair so much😭 even years ago seeing you and until now I'm always curious how you maintain your hair color

Ich brauche dieses Video! Danke!

hands are one of my best thing in my art

This video is so helpful. Thank u so much! You're awesome! And handsome!

just saw your post on facebook istg its- G O D L Y

I'm still searching for my way to draw hands ^^ but I noticed that references are soooo useful and helpful :3

*THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU*

Ereh Yaegar.l!! Ah amazing tutorial and art 💥

THANK YOU 🥺🍀✨

That was a great video. Lol. Thank you.

16 years old me drawning hand i still drawn it with round shape and now I've learned how to draw it properly thanks

i use a mix of both, looking at references then drawing construction

I just draw it out of my head until I feel like it looks good. I am not a professional artist tho, so I will definitely use your advice

Thanks for making this video. The first method with the shapes I’m realistically not going to do, because it’s dry to me, but the reference method looks promising. I like the idea of modifying the reference photo with liquify, I’m going to try that.

ayo it's funny you were on my recommendations and I didn't see your videos before, but I was planning on doing the same approach of making tutorials by showing different emotions of me in anime style lol😂 btw you kinda sound like you're german as well

Hello! Tysm! For teaching this how to draw hand and the angle! I'm so struggling to draw the hand.

I 100% agree the the concept *work smart not hard*

I always looks at my hand, before trying to draw a hand. Saved this video, and will watch it later.

Спасибо тебе, помог👍