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I love hands. I don't think there's anything I enjoy more. They can say a lot about a person, and for me, there's a certain challenge in trying to get them to say everything I want them to. I put a lot more emphasis on what hands are saying than faces. I guess I'd say hands can lie less, about who you are. Whether they're rough or soft, or delicate, or strong. You can pretend not to be a carpenter, but wood just strips your hands of moisture. Shake somebody's hand, and you know who they are. Maybe that's where the greeting started.

It's one of the first things I learned to draw properly, mostly because everyone kept saying how hard it was and that fascinated me as a child - I worried about it. I was lucky to immediately be learning from Albert Dorne & friends about the matter.
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I was a kid though, so I'd have to go through this book again (properly) as an adult. I keep it nearby all the same. I probably will soon, I think.

It doesn't mean that, in the intervening years I haven't totally abbreviated what I learned. I certainly don't draw anything like Dorne.
I have a lot of bad habits, and that causes a lot of blocks for me as an artist. I didn't learn evenly, and I pay the price for that.

This drawing was an effort to get something out there, put some colour down. Hands are something I don't feel very blocked about, and P4 is an absolute design marvel, with a colour I hate, yellow. I've had the opportunity to see a lot of very interesting work as a result - It's just like there was a lot of very interesting work surrounding SNK's Ash Crimson, too, and his unusual 60's pop design. [link]

I'm still trying to become comfortable with using colour at all, so while this is a kind of rushed thing, that in itself is way out there for me! XD It was brave, but I wanted to put something down.

Description
I love hands. I don't think there's anything I enjoy more. They can say a lot about a person, and for me, there's a certain challenge in trying to get them to say everything I want them to. I put a lot more emphasis on what hands are saying than faces. I guess I'd say hands can lie less, about who you are. Whether they're rough or soft, or delicate, or strong. You can pretend not to be a carpenter, but wood just strips your hands of moisture. Shake somebody's hand, and you know who they are. Maybe that's where the greeting started.

It's one of the first things I learned to draw properly, mostly because everyone kept saying how hard it was and that fascinated me as a child - I worried about it. I was lucky to immediately be learning from Albert Dorne & friends about the matter.
[link]
I was a kid though, so I'd have to go through this book again (properly) as an adult. I keep it nearby all the same. I probably will soon, I think.

It doesn't mean that, in the intervening years I haven't totally abbreviated what I learned. I certainly don't draw anything like Dorne.
I have a lot of bad habits, and that causes a lot of blocks for me as an artist. I didn't learn evenly, and I pay the price for that.

This drawing was an effort to get something out there, put some colour down. Hands are something I don't feel very blocked about, and P4 is an absolute design marvel, with a colour I hate, yellow. I've had the opportunity to see a lot of very interesting work as a result - It's just like there was a lot of very interesting work surrounding SNK's Ash Crimson, too, and his unusual 60's pop design. [link]

I'm still trying to become comfortable with using colour at all, so while this is a kind of rushed thing, that in itself is way out there for me! XD It was brave, but I wanted to put something down.