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TheMike:
when you draw, are you trying to draw a person with their mouth open showing their teeth? or are you drawing someone screaming for their life? my point is that you are trying to convey a story(most of the time atleast) or an emotion, if you can do it without getting hands perfect, go for it.

people put too much weight in traditional art training and proportions, but for me it is all about making the viewer feel what you want them to feel.

now, if you are just trying to show a person just for the sake of being able to put speech bubbles next to them, then i'd say consistancy is key. you should be able to draw the same character the same twice.

Keiriku:
A good way to start is practicing the body proportions by looking at magazine pictures (or even anime pictures, which generally have properly proportioned bodies). You could start practicing bodies by looking at those and drawing them.

One way to better your ability to draw bodies is to start out drawing them without clothes (don't worry, you're not required to draw the naughty parts :)) and then you can figure out how the clothes fit after.

Once you've gained the ability to draw properly proportioned bodies, you'll be able to draw the cartoonish, purposely-improperly proportioned bodies with more ease. I found that I could never draw a chibi (little anime) character right before I learnt to draw a properly proportioned character, so it might work out the same for you. =) Good luck!

-Sherri

PS: Don't give up too easily on the hands.. those damn things are hard to learn!

Lise:
I'm just inappropriately lazy. I own SEVERAL books on drawing (Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, How to Draw Manga, etc etc) and haven't gotten past the first chapters on each.

Keiriku, hands are a @@@@ to draw, I agree. I usually just leave hands as an unfinished blob (use your imagination), or draw the person holding their hands behind their back.

Eh, and I don't even have a clue as to how to develop one's own style....

PS: I used to attempt to learn by tracing other artist's characters. Hee, tracing QC girls has made me realized that they ARE in an almost "permanent slouch!"

Molon_uk:
Wow, it's good to see so many other people having trouble with hands. I have lots of drawings of people withtheir hands in their pockets or behind their backs.

I also find it hard to draw breasts, they always look lop sided or the shapes don't match well.

Xyclone:
I too once had trouble with hands and sometimes it takes for freakin ever to get them right. I found jsut to get used to drawing them start with fists! draw a rough circle with a part of it rather flat or just imagine part of it flat, use that for knucles. then add a lump below it for a thumb knucle sticking out and then just start adding lines for finger and such... .im realizing trying to write this out is pointless, here gimme a few and ill draw an actual step by step up for ya. brb

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