@@DEADHOLT dude never said to post pone LEARNING anatomy, Of course you gotta know the rules to break them, but having a sense of appeal in the sketch by doing the gesture and feel of it first, then when you are refining the sketch you can take into account the anatomy (I'm not saying to never think about proportions and stuff, just put it in the back burner until you finish with the expression)
The youtuber DrawingWiffWaffles gave a really good video about drawing hands better. My hands used to look like disproportionate blobs, now they look like proportionate blobs! lol
@@skedizzle O thanks for the resource. I think I got OK hands, but occasionally they look like they've been stuck in a wood chipper. You can take that last sentence any way you'd like.
Blade of the Darkmoon "As someone who always hid the hands in the pocket, this is incredibly helpful." ----- Can't follow your way of thinking here. You still have to draw the hands, so...?
O. B. Not really, just arms. If you hide the hands in the pocket all you have to do it show value in the pocket to give emphasis that the hands are there.
i agree, highly recommend trying this out, it also builds speed and confidence drawing hands as you'll get to them quicker and learn a lot more about body language because hands do say a lot non-verbally. this is about as useful to pull out of your bag of tricks as quick figure drawing sketches because you can get an idea of where you are going really fast.
Neither me! I thought it's bad drawing hands that it'll look like a long limb. But maybe we could just use tge anatomy later since this one is like gesture drawing.
How about doing this multiple times when struggling and never realizing it’s an actual valuable method. I’ve actually done this before but had to see this video to realize how effective it really is.
I've actually been doing this for a while now cause my arms would always be too long and my hands would never end up where I wanted them to. I also start with the chin when drawing a face cause the eyes are in the middle and the chin is always at the bottom, and then I just work my way up from there. still really suck at drawing feet tho
MrParkerman6 i used to but I find it leaves more room for mistakes for me, either the eyes are a little too far apart or too high/low. I draw a loose half oval and add some ears, then I add more shape to the jaw and after I draw the chin I go to the mouth, nostrils and then I make small limes to indicate the nose bridge on the hight of the eyes and then make the eyes, eyebrows, hirline and then the head shape. Works best for me
Interesting way to draw the face. I always plan off the placement of the brow, since in most cases it will be the middle of the character's face and you can just draw anything outward from there
it isn't. you have to be pretty knowledgeable about how hands look in different angles, and the body in general.. this is a shortcut that requires the fundamentals imo
@@kipz Yea, if you can't visually picture how the human body looks and moves in every angel and position then you aren't ready for videos like this. 99.99% of people skip the fundamentals and go to videos like this thinking it's for beginners but it's actually more beneficial to young professionals who have graduated that and need to now move away from perfect anatomy.
You also mentioned another great tip, the body should be able to convey the emotion and attitude even without facial expression. Some youtube storytime animators don’t draw the face at all, just eyes, that's a great drawing exercise. If you can understand the character and story just from the body language, it really brings your characters alive.
I feel like this could also apply to legs maybe. Same thing with just drawing the hands except just drawing the feet. Might work since the legs and arms are limbs with similar joint rotation and stuff
It might be a bit different. since the feet are what grounds the character the legs have more expression in a way. Also if the legs arent proportioned the character might look strange. In action poses where the feet/foot arent grounded this definitely will work.
I discovered/invented this general approach in 1997, when I was in art school. We were using (the now ancient) Animator Pro. My animations always looked stiff. So one day I just figured "screw it", and did my first pass just animating the feet, hands, and head. It looked weird--some blobs moving around and changing size. But in my head it just clicked. So once I had the movement down, I went back in and finished my roughs, literally "connecting the dots."
This makes it so easy! I have always had issues drawing attitudes from imagination but this helps a lot. Why is this tip not more widely known? Thank you Aaron so much for this valuable information :)
I haven't even watched the video but just this thumbnail advice appeared to be sooo useful, its insane! Thank you dude, my drawings are much better now.
Doing this I've realized that I have far more visual library in my brain of where the hands were in a gesture compared to how the arms were posed, so once you put down the hands the arms just kind of place themselves. Really simple yet solid advice, thank you.
“Go out and put some beauty back into the world.” I love this so much. This is what I’ve been saying to all of the people who looked at me sideways when I said that I wanted to be an artist. Remember: Earth without “art” is just “eh.” We make the world a little more beautiful.
This was single-handedly the biggest problem I had drawing a good pose. And you sir just solved it in 10 minutes like it's nothing. I freaking love you man.
This is a GREAT art tip on it's own but also it made me realize that, you can put your hands basically anywhere that's within arm's reach, there are almost no restrictions on the range of motion that's available. Hands are probably the most versatile part of our bodies and this video made me realize that I've been sorely under using them, thanks!
AMAZING!! ONe of the morst difficult things that I have had to draw are hands. Many times I forget how big hands actually are. This video gave me great ideas on hos to really incorporate great drawing technique for hands in my drawings. Great video. Blessings
I love watching art videos while I work and this was the first one this week that I couldn't work and just pay attention. I'm a 3D artist but I love to sketch and this tip blew my mind! Literally just came out of a meeting with a full page of different expressions and poses by doing your method. Thank you so much for teaching me this!
It is incredible because I have draw a character using this technique and two days later, this video pops up in my recommendations like it was some kind of sign or something like that. You sir are an amazing artist. This video will help people who struggle to draw because lack of anatomy comprehension or artist's block. Thank you so much!
This came just in time! I have an animatic that I need to finish by this Friday for a university course and it's literally just a character from the chest and up. xD.
THAT is sooo clever. You know these moments where you're just like "I'm not that stupid compared to all the others in this room"? ...Yeah, that's NOT one of these moments for me right now. Like, damn, i feel dumb for not figuring this out for myself.
You are the absolute MAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :D As a beginner animator, and professional character voice actor, I know how important expressions are when combining my voice with animation, and you completely changed my outlook on how to draw expressiveness in my characters, to really help portray exactly how my characters feel across to the viewer! Please never stop making these videos! This video alone is better made than most TH-cam drawing tutorials out there. It feels like being one on one with a REAL/cool teacher in his peaceful animation room. Kind of like watching Bob Ross paint, like.. you can TELL Bob Ross wanted you to learn, and learn correctly, but also not get overwhelmed. You give off the same kind of creative, positive energy. :) Most others on TH-cam don't actually fully explain themselves clearly, all because they either want you to buy their crappy over priced book on Amazon, lol or.. because they don't know what they're fully doing too well themselves, but want to earn money for art supplies using youtube, all while lacking the correct knowledge, thus misleading and throwing off students who can't afford art school and rely on TH-cam for an education. There are certainly still *many* great artists out there who are excellent at what they do, and really want the students to learn, and you Sir, are one of them. Thanks again man! :) -Neal C.
This is a game changer. I know kind of intuitively where to put the hands, but I can get caught up in the limbs, redrawing the hands to make it look 'right' when it doesn't look right. With animation though, it makes perfect sense. We're watching and following the face and hands of people, not their elbows or biceps. It's like drawing two points and then joining them with a line, not trying to eyeball the line and then the next point. I had queued this up, started drawing with the hands in mind, and saw some of the gesture disappear. When your video came up, it helped show me why. Thank you for this epiphany!
I can't believe it's that easy. Amazing. I never would have thought of doing it this way. This is extremely useful not only for expressions, but also for figuring out foreshortening.
I had a notable epiphany that because of foreshortening proportion is somehow *both* really important _and_ completely useless. It's useless because you can't tell the length of an object by how much it's foreshortened. The rules of proportion are upended, somewhat: two arms coming at you can look the same _length_ no matter who they belong to. - But it's really important because you need to have an idea of the size difference in relation to adjacent objects. Especially those on the same plane. The two arms coming at you might be the same length on the page, but are they the same girth, do the key points line up? I feel like you have to get used to this vaguely paradoxical reality, or you just draw people like they're standing in a line-up your whole life.
This makes a lot of sense cuz when we're doing stuff, we don't think about where our arms are going to be for the most part! we just put our hands places and our arms shape themselves to make that happen
Technique here is so eye opening, and actually is motivating me to pick up art right now. Thank you! Some food for thought about WHY this is so great. We as humans almost never consciously move our arms. We focus on where we want our hands to go and our arms subconsciously shift to get our hands to the target location. Drawing this way makes more sense in many ways to me than starting from the shoulder down for this reason. Im going to experiment using this idea using more than just hands and arms and see where it gets me. Thank you Aaron!!
you, my good sir, dont know how you saved me from only drawing boring static poses and showed me the light to more dynamic interesting poses from just starting out with the hands first. honestly cant believe it never occurred to me to do this, 😧
This was not only extremely helpful, but it was also very entertaining, which makes it even better. I have to make this my usual drawing routine. Thank you infinitely.
I'm glad I stumbled across your channel because this is great advice. I'm not much of an artist, generally I only do rough sketches but I've tried this out and it really helps.
Wow this is a very smart idea. I struggle with arm anatomy and getting my proportions right all the time so this technique will help me out a lot! Thank you!!
That's an interesting approach. Very concise. Won't fit in all scenarios but it's worth trying and if that gets the artists motor going all the better. Good on you, sir.
Omg I’ve started doing this recently before watching this video and it’s indeed very helpful and waaay easier than starting with the body or the torso!
Wow such a great tip!!! I think I’ll try it out with a small animation! I want to get into technique in animation, so I want to practice and I think that will help greatly! Thank you!
Oh my word, this is brilliant. I've always drawn torso out because I'm so worried about getting everything proportionate. I needed a tip like this. Thank you!
Dude, I was literally thinking about this today. I've had a lot of improvement on the anatomy of my characters in the past few months, but a lot of them came out with a lack of purpose or emotion. I tried doing the whole gesture line thing but this is waaaayyy more helpful, thank you
Makes perfect sense. I think when we actually move our own hands we only conciously think about the where the hands should move, the rest of the arm is just moved unconciously to make the hands go where you want. We only really notice where our elbows are going when we bump them into things accidentally or when we conciously think about them.
Greetings from Denmark. wonderful 11 minutes of teaching! But I do think that the two books: "drawn to life" are a must, for learning gesture drawing.
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thanx man this was a really good tip .. this is the stuff you dont learn everywhere , and in reality our arms are just following our hands anyways
One day I plan to take one of your beautiful, helpful courses sir! You keep being you and I'll make it there!
Thank you so very much. I never would have thought of this alone. This is an amazing shortcut.
Awesome video sir appreciated it though
Really helpful. .thx.
"Don't get hung up on anatomy, get the gesture down first"
THIS.
@@DEADHOLT that's why he said get the gesture down *first* anatomy can come later
@@DEADHOLT this a public chat and anyone can reply to any coment. Dont talk to them like that
@@DEADHOLT In that I can agree
@@DEADHOLT dude never said to post pone LEARNING anatomy,
Of course you gotta know the rules to break them, but having a sense of appeal in the sketch by doing the gesture and feel of it first, then when you are refining the sketch you can take into account the anatomy
(I'm not saying to never think about proportions and stuff, just put it in the back burner until you finish with the expression)
@@DEADHOLT Anatomy is a scary hard thing to learn and do correctly, but yeah- thats all i have to say so eeee
Little does Aaron know, the real reason we draw the arms first is to delay the inevitability of drawing the hands.
Redkit Bellson tru
The youtuber DrawingWiffWaffles gave a really good video about drawing hands better. My hands used to look like disproportionate blobs, now they look like proportionate blobs! lol
Bold of you to assume i dont like drawing hands
@@secretname2670 *enemy spotted*
@@skedizzle O thanks for the resource. I think I got OK hands, but occasionally they look like they've been stuck in a wood chipper. You can take that last sentence any way you'd like.
turns out Rayman was just a sketch and then Ubisoft was like: yeah, it's done
Ha! I thought the same thing. Loved that game when I was younger.
xDDDD
Edoardo Sella facts 😂😂😂
The genuinely did it to save cost on animating the arms.
Lmaoooo
I can't tell how many times I tried doing this as an experiment and my teacher would always give me the fussy look. I'm trying expressions ovah here!
Hahah! 😂 Hopefully your poses are lookin sweet
Firstly, that "fussy look from the art teacher" is very relatable
Secondly, and also a bit off topic, please don't write "over" like that
@@amino-acid ....its the internet. People will say what they want.
As someone who always hid the hands in the pocket, this is incredibly helpful.
Blade of the Darkmoon you too 😂😂😂 same here lmao
I always just put the hand in a place that I’m used to drawing the hand. Like hands on hips is easy for me, guess how many drawings have hip hands?
Blade of the Darkmoon "As someone who always hid the hands in the pocket, this is incredibly helpful."
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Can't follow your way of thinking here. You still have to draw the hands, so...?
@@o.b.7217 I know how to draw hands. I just sometimes don't know how to pose them.
O. B. Not really, just arms. If you hide the hands in the pocket all you have to do it show value in the pocket to give emphasis that the hands are there.
i agree, highly recommend trying this out, it also builds speed and confidence drawing hands as you'll get to them quicker and learn a lot more about body language because hands do say a lot non-verbally.
this is about as useful to pull out of your bag of tricks as quick figure drawing sketches because you can get an idea of where you are going really fast.
Mine don't. I never use hand gestures when talking. I find it annoying when people do it too much actually.
@@MrParkerman6 so you do what with your hands then? let them hang on each side?
@@bobxbaker he's probably the type of person to walk without moving the arms. scary!
4:23 praise the sun
Lol
*ME:* oh man awesome tip I'm going to try this out!"
_5 min later..._
*Me:* f*ck. I can't draw hands..."
Just draw a lot of them from reference
Now to search a video on how to draw hands lol
McCoy Buck very relatable 🤣
you could replace them with circles, since the hands just tell you were the arms are
XD
man, why is this the first time I've heard this? I feel dumb for not trying it myself sooner lmao
You are not the only one!!! XD
Neither me! I thought it's bad drawing hands that it'll look like a long limb. But maybe we could just use tge anatomy later since this one is like gesture drawing.
I did that before I even saw this video.
same
How about doing this multiple times when struggling and never realizing it’s an actual valuable method. I’ve actually done this before but had to see this video to realize how effective it really is.
Thumbnail: _Guess I'll just forget about the arms then_
It acctually does look like the meme
hahahhahah
*Rayman has entered the chat*
I've actually been doing this for a while now cause my arms would always be too long and my hands would never end up where I wanted them to.
I also start with the chin when drawing a face cause the eyes are in the middle and the chin is always at the bottom, and then I just work my way up from there.
still really suck at drawing feet tho
I always draw eyes and then nose on face first.
Late to the Game So like the hands and then?
MrParkerman6 i used to but I find it leaves more room for mistakes for me, either the eyes are a little too far apart or too high/low.
I draw a loose half oval and add some ears, then I add more shape to the jaw and after I draw the chin I go to the mouth, nostrils and then I make small limes to indicate the nose bridge on the hight of the eyes and then make the eyes, eyebrows, hirline and then the head shape.
Works best for me
Late to the Game Still not understanding this concept. What is ‘me’ in ‘closest to me’ referring to?
Interesting way to draw the face. I always plan off the placement of the brow, since in most cases it will be the middle of the character's face and you can just draw anything outward from there
The way he calmly explains how he likes to draw little figures is pure asmr for me
I never knew it would be THAT easy.
I mean he is an amazing artist of course he'll make it look easy😂
But i'm also very impressed with this technique it's absolutely genius✨
it isn't. you have to be pretty knowledgeable about how hands look in different angles, and the body in general.. this is a shortcut that requires the fundamentals imo
@@kipz Yea, if you can't visually picture how the human body looks and moves in every angel and position then you aren't ready for videos like this. 99.99% of people skip the fundamentals and go to videos like this thinking it's for beginners but it's actually more beneficial to young professionals who have graduated that and need to now move away from perfect anatomy.
"...it's that easy" Spider Noir
Right!
You also mentioned another great tip, the body should be able to convey the emotion and attitude even without facial expression. Some youtube storytime animators don’t draw the face at all, just eyes, that's a great drawing exercise. If you can understand the character and story just from the body language, it really brings your characters alive.
I feel like this could also apply to legs maybe. Same thing with just drawing the hands except just drawing the feet. Might work since the legs and arms are limbs with similar joint rotation and stuff
It might be a bit different. since the feet are what grounds the character the legs have more expression in a way. Also if the legs arent proportioned the character might look strange. In action poses where the feet/foot arent grounded this definitely will work.
I discovered/invented this general approach in 1997, when I was in art school. We were using (the now ancient) Animator Pro. My animations always looked stiff. So one day I just figured "screw it", and did my first pass just animating the feet, hands, and head. It looked weird--some blobs moving around and changing size. But in my head it just clicked. So once I had the movement down, I went back in and finished my roughs, literally "connecting the dots."
AxlWarpshaft lol “invented”. Sure buddy
This makes it so easy! I have always had issues drawing attitudes from imagination but this helps a lot. Why is this tip not more widely known? Thank you Aaron so much for this valuable information :)
If you are my art / animation teacher I would learn 4 times faster.
I haven't even watched the video but just this thumbnail advice appeared to be sooo useful, its insane! Thank you dude, my drawings are much better now.
ive actually been doing this recently, i feel so stupid for not figuring this out sooner xD
Aaron: just draw hands
Me who still can't draw hands in any picture: seems easy enough
No matter how much I practise I'm just not that good at anatomy but I feel like your tip will help me improve my skills a lot. Thanks!
All my years of drawing...Never knew about this tip...Thank you soo much, makes drawing soo much more faster.
Doing this I've realized that I have far more visual library in my brain of where the hands were in a gesture compared to how the arms were posed, so once you put down the hands the arms just kind of place themselves. Really simple yet solid advice, thank you.
“Go out and put some beauty back into the world.”
I love this so much. This is what I’ve been saying to all of the people who looked at me sideways when I said that I wanted to be an artist. Remember: Earth without “art” is just “eh.” We make the world a little more beautiful.
This is very helpful!! I get stuck with arms all the time and the whole pose get stiff, will practice this 😊
This was single-handedly the biggest problem I had drawing a good pose. And you sir just solved it in 10 minutes like it's nothing. I freaking love you man.
this blew my mind. just the concept of doing this has completely altered how i feel about drawing hands and poses as a whole
This is a GREAT art tip on it's own but also it made me realize that, you can put your hands basically anywhere that's within arm's reach, there are almost no restrictions on the range of motion that's available. Hands are probably the most versatile part of our bodies and this video made me realize that I've been sorely under using them, thanks!
AMAZING!! ONe of the morst difficult things that I have had to draw are hands. Many times I forget how big hands actually are. This video gave me great ideas on hos to really incorporate great drawing technique for hands in my drawings. Great video. Blessings
Four years of art school and this singlehandedly is the most helpful thing I have learned
‘Go out and put some beauty back in the world’ - inspired me so much. I even had a little tear. Thanks a lot!
This is the smartest thing ever. It's so simple, but man, does it INSTANTLY help when trying to lock down a pose. Thank you!
I love watching art videos while I work and this was the first one this week that I couldn't work and just pay attention. I'm a 3D artist but I love to sketch and this tip blew my mind! Literally just came out of a meeting with a full page of different expressions and poses by doing your method. Thank you so much for teaching me this!
It is incredible because I have draw a character using this technique and two days later, this video pops up in my recommendations like it was some kind of sign or something like that.
You sir are an amazing artist. This video will help people who struggle to draw because lack of anatomy comprehension or artist's block. Thank you so much!
Subscribed just for this. This channel is a fountain of animation knowledge!
This came just in time! I have an animatic that I need to finish by this Friday for a university course and it's literally just a character from the chest and up. xD.
THAT is sooo clever. You know these moments where you're just like "I'm not that stupid compared to all the others in this room"? ...Yeah, that's NOT one of these moments for me right now. Like, damn, i feel dumb for not figuring this out for myself.
Great video! I've been watching your horse instructionals and they've skyrocketed my progress. Thanks!
You are the absolute MAN. THANK YOU SO MUCH!! :D As a beginner animator, and professional character voice actor, I know how important expressions are when combining my voice with animation, and you completely changed my outlook on how to draw expressiveness in my characters, to really help portray exactly how my characters feel across to the viewer! Please never stop making these videos! This video alone is better made than most TH-cam drawing tutorials out there. It feels like being one on one with a REAL/cool teacher in his peaceful animation room. Kind of like watching Bob Ross paint, like.. you can TELL Bob Ross wanted you to learn, and learn correctly, but also not get overwhelmed. You give off the same kind of creative, positive energy. :) Most others on TH-cam don't actually fully explain themselves clearly, all because they either want you to buy their crappy over priced book on Amazon, lol or.. because they don't know what they're fully doing too well themselves, but want to earn money for art supplies using youtube, all while lacking the correct knowledge, thus misleading and throwing off students who can't afford art school and rely on TH-cam for an education. There are certainly still *many* great artists out there who are excellent at what they do, and really want the students to learn, and you Sir, are one of them.
Thanks again man! :)
-Neal C.
This is a game changer. I know kind of intuitively where to put the hands, but I can get caught up in the limbs, redrawing the hands to make it look 'right' when it doesn't look right.
With animation though, it makes perfect sense. We're watching and following the face and hands of people, not their elbows or biceps. It's like drawing two points and then joining them with a line, not trying to eyeball the line and then the next point.
I had queued this up, started drawing with the hands in mind, and saw some of the gesture disappear. When your video came up, it helped show me why. Thank you for this epiphany!
I can't believe it's that easy. Amazing. I never would have thought of doing it this way. This is extremely useful not only for expressions, but also for figuring out foreshortening.
I had a notable epiphany that because of foreshortening proportion is somehow *both* really important _and_ completely useless. It's useless because you can't tell the length of an object by how much it's foreshortened. The rules of proportion are upended, somewhat: two arms coming at you can look the same _length_ no matter who they belong to. - But it's really important because you need to have an idea of the size difference in relation to adjacent objects. Especially those on the same plane. The two arms coming at you might be the same length on the page, but are they the same girth, do the key points line up?
I feel like you have to get used to this vaguely paradoxical reality, or you just draw people like they're standing in a line-up your whole life.
This makes a lot of sense cuz when we're doing stuff, we don't think about where our arms are going to be for the most part! we just put our hands places and our arms shape themselves to make that happen
I have to hand it to you, this is the most coolest and most useful trick I've ever seen, hands down.
Subscribed.
Technique here is so eye opening, and actually is motivating me to pick up art right now. Thank you! Some food for thought about WHY this is so great. We as humans almost never consciously move our arms. We focus on where we want our hands to go and our arms subconsciously shift to get our hands to the target location. Drawing this way makes more sense in many ways to me than starting from the shoulder down for this reason. Im going to experiment using this idea using more than just hands and arms and see where it gets me. Thank you Aaron!!
Glad to see you doing Aaron's Art Tips again! I love these little bite sized chunks of drawing wisdom.
3:51 the sound I make when I have to get out of my bed in the morning
I can't believe i laughed at this at 1 am in the morning
Also the sound my dog make when I tell him its time for a bath.
I always have to click on your video when it is uploaded. You are awesome.
Thank you TH-cam for recommend this to me!
Also thank you Mr for posting this on TH-cam❤️
you, my good sir, dont know how you saved me from only drawing boring static poses and showed me the light to more dynamic interesting poses from just starting out with the hands first. honestly cant believe it never occurred to me to do this, 😧
This was not only extremely helpful, but it was also very entertaining, which makes it even better. I have to make this my usual drawing routine. Thank you infinitely.
Wow that's a really smart way to go about it. I never thought of doing that Damn that's genius
The tip about the hands is brilliant - thank you!
Aaron's art tips are back! Yeah! 👏👏
Wow... every time I discover something new and helpful!!! there's no end for creativity!
Many thanks, Aaron
You saved my life with this tip! Thank you so much!❤
It's so great to access to lessons like this. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Pure and simple!! I'll give that technique a try. Thanks for your advice and talent
I love this! I discovered this by accident one day, then sorta forgot it. Great reminder, and from someone well seasoned.
I'm glad I stumbled across your channel because this is great advice. I'm not much of an artist, generally I only do rough sketches but I've tried this out and it really helps.
This was so helpful! Drawing poses for acting is so much more clear now
Wow this is a very smart idea. I struggle with arm anatomy and getting my proportions right all the time so this technique will help me out a lot! Thank you!!
this is awesome, kind of like how the brain can read jumbled words as long the first and last letters are correct. thanks for sharing!
F_ _uck = firetruck like this?
@@danny90099 *jumbled up* words not omited letters... Nuance.
Rick Sanchez mroe lkie tihs
@@urarakaochako6230 tihs is waht I'm tlaknig abuot
Sudimax yaeh!
That's an interesting approach. Very concise. Won't fit in all scenarios but it's worth trying and if that gets the artists motor going all the better. Good on you, sir.
This has helped my art more than any other tutorial I have ever watched
Mind.. Blown.. Thank you sir!
It's so obvious, but I'd never thought of doing it before. I IMMEDIATELY knew where to place the arms once I did this- this tip is fantastic.
This is a great tip. It's going to help my gesture drawing considerably.
I tried this as soon as I saw the video and it worked immediately making things so much easier for me! Great tip, and great examples, thank you!!
Wow, this might be the best quick art tip I 've ever gotten.
Really great tip. Have never thought of this. So simple and so AMAZING. Thank You so much!
This Tip is one of the best I've used in a long time! Having so much fun drawing expressive characters again. Thank you Aaron!
This video is very helpful, thanks so much for sharing. I always have trouble with poses in my drawings.
Omg I’ve started doing this recently before watching this video and it’s indeed very helpful and waaay easier than starting with the body or the torso!
Holy cow! This was extremely helpful!
The timing for this was incredible - Thanks Aaron !!!
Very useful tip i did this unintentionally in the past and ended up with something great thank you
I draw along while watching. Really fun and helpful! Thank you!
I'm a simple guy, I see a wise man who talks in a good, non-annoying voice that also knows his shit; I subscribe
it's actually nuts how useful this tip is.
Thank you Aaron! Much appreciated!
Wow such a great tip!!!
I think I’ll try it out with a small animation!
I want to get into technique in animation, so I want to practice and I think that will help greatly!
Thank you!
Oh my word, this is brilliant. I've always drawn torso out because I'm so worried about getting everything proportionate. I needed a tip like this. Thank you!
WOW This brings a whole lotta changes! The man is a legend!
This is one of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever gotten in my art journey
Dude, I was literally thinking about this today. I've had a lot of improvement on the anatomy of my characters in the past few months, but a lot of them came out with a lack of purpose or emotion. I tried doing the whole gesture line thing but this is waaaayyy more helpful, thank you
This is Golden, although I've been subconsciously doing this, You put a word and structure to it.
You Sir are a god among Men.
“You don’t always have to have your arms”
Makes perfect sense. I think when we actually move our own hands we only conciously think about the where the hands should move, the rest of the arm is just moved unconciously to make the hands go where you want. We only really notice where our elbows are going when we bump them into things accidentally or when we conciously think about them.
This is probably THE BEST advice I have heard in a long long while. Thank you!~
Very helpful tip! I think I’ll start trying this just for poses in illustration and comics too!
you are so right, I tried this and it really makes drawing more fun for me
Im in art school and i havent encountered this advice before! THIS IS GONNA CHANGE MY WHOLE APPROACH TO POSING
Thank you Aaron! Great tip! So simple, but never thought about using it. This made my day.
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wonderful 11 minutes of teaching!
But I do think that the two books: "drawn to life" are a must, for learning gesture drawing.
I never ever thought about this. Such a fantastic idea thanks!!!
This is actually helps alot! I was stuck in a rut but this video saved me! I'll start again with these tips
I just tried this as the video played. Man, Great tip. You just eliminated a whole bunch of nonsense in my art.
It's an extremely helpful trick just for foreshortening the arm as well. Just draw a large hand and build backwards.