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The Tutorials are up in the Art Forum!

It took forever! That's why I asked if there was a better way to publish them. (There wasn't) and people left random comments, before I even finished publishing entry after entry.

I could only publish 1 graphic per entry, plus only up to 4 per every 1/2 hour. Took forever! Then: Drove me crazy!

I actually could do a whole book... but, no one's paying me... so... who knows?

I mostly created the tutorials as "cheat sheets" because I wanted to help people "get it" in a way that breaks it down into such a simple method, that it would feel so easy, that it was too easy! Then, once the practice was put into place, people would get bored with drawing the same old thing and push the limits of their thinking for drawing hands, because actually anyone can draw the simple poses if you practice them afew times. Just like everyone can draw the letter "A" because as children everyone had to practice writing "A" over & over.

But, also I wanted to help people conceptualize hands as just shapes and a few lines, so they could visualize it mentally. Instead of racking their brains thinking: How the heck do I do this?

Actually all complex things as nothing but basic things put together. Just figure out your basics, which tend to be very simple. Then when you put the together, you have what is seen as complex, or complexity. NOT complications nor the complicated.

I'll probably get more people bugging me to do cheat sheets for male hands, and illustrating the difference between male & female....

As for shading & reflections, I have cheats for that, just no tutorials. It would be easier to teach people in person. Especially when you're also teaching secondary lighting sources, or color theory.

Anyways, just go to the forum and download the graphics.

Yeah, I know you artists are all visual. But my typed stuff is full of insight also.

I try to keep the graphics as visual and easy to get as possible.