When You Flip The Canvas And The Drawing Still Looks Good

when you flip the canvas and the drawing still looks good

After watching the teaser trailer for the Black Panther movie, I wanted to draw him. This was drawn with charcoal pencil.

When you’re drawing hands, use fingernails to show perspective, orientation, and form of the fingers. Don’t worry about the literal shape of the nail, unless it’s an important element of your character. 

A common mistake is to draw fingernails flat. They’re actually rounded. They follow that cylindrical top plane of the rest of the finger. The nail explains if the finger is coming towards or moving away from the viewer in space, and how much. A nail acts as a natural cross-contour line. Its left-to-right angle also explains how the finger is rotated. If you ever draw a finger that just looks off somehow, try redrawing the fingernail. It might fix your problem.

It’s a good habit to compare the orientation of the thumb’s nail to the rest of the fingers, since the thumb actually faces away from the other fingers. It’s a common mistake to draw the thumb parallel to the others and flatten out the whole hand. As the thumb reaches across the palm to grab something, it rotates to face the opposite angle of the fingers.

Learn more about Drawing Hands!

I saw this base and first thing I thought of was the main boys from HXH. 

Original base belongs to the artist.

you do not need expensive paint brushes, paint, or canvases to make art. you do not need branded journals or overpriced tablets to make good art. sure, they could aid you in making better outputs but not having them should not stop you from making art. please stop making excuses and start making art instead!!

do you ever just

“no that’s not dramatic and cheesy enough”

“getting warmer”

“t HERE IT IS”