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Beli Lapran from HuniePop! I swear, I never draw backgrounds anymore and I’m getting so sorely out of practice..I need to next time.

I will likely do the other gals as well.

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Speed drawing of Baby from Sister Location, in the style of Archie Comics. Perhaps this could have been an advertisement for the establishment before it was shut down.

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This is a WIP for the most part, however I may not finish it. Figured I’d post it now despite the anatomical errors and shading errors.

Anyhow, this is Funtime Foxy done in the same style as my previous drawing (Ballora I think?) For some reason in the trailer I got this theatrical vibe from him/her, so I decided to convey him/her reciting Shakespearean soliloquy’s or something. The shadow is totally just artistic freedom again: some other generation of Pirate Foxy.

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I took a lot of artistic liberties here (especially with the shadow and her overall design) but that ballerina animatronic in the FNaF Sister Location trailer was pretty cool. Had to draw her

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Birthday gift for Reddit user Forunth! 

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Izumi The Water Witch - Art request. I see a lot of errors in this looking at it again, but I still like it overall. I rarely can draw shoes very well, so I’m pleased with these!

I think she was an RP character on a Minecraft Server (that I didn’t actually play on).

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I’ve been wanting to draw Princess Luna for a while, so I decided to attempt a curvilinear/art nouveau approach. Still could use some practice, but pleased over all!

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This is fan art based off of the Five Nights at Freddy’s subreddit user, Forunth’s, design for (human) Xangle! 

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The big post of things about hands!!! I don’t consider myself qualified to teach art at this point in my life, but I don’t see any harm in sharing observations I have made. In learning to draw hands over the past few months I’ve tried to take a lot of notes, with the end goal of hopefully creating a video tutorial one day. I personally learn better from videos than written or illustrated instructions, but I’ve never found any one video that really demystifies drawing hands. I believe that in order to tackle such a difficult subject it is important to understand what makes it difficult, and this is not often addressed. If you understand the problems you can systematically solve them…

Drawing the hand is almost like drawing a whole person. Similar number of “major masses” and a big range of motion.

Because the hand is so versatile, it’s hard to pick a pose when practicing. Most individual body parts are drawn from different angles, whereas the hand must be drawn from different angles and in different poses.

Hands have a lot of moving parts and from any given angle many of these will be partially or wholly obscured by other parts. Drawing “through the form” results in confusing construction lines that are difficult to interpret.

Hands are expressive and give big clues as to what a character is doing. Odd or unnatural hand poses detract heavily from your overall piece. Most people avoid drawing hands because of this.

The thumb flexes along a different plane than the four fingers and sits on its own deviant metacarpal. Drawing the hand in perspective is hard enough, but adding the thumb in relation to the rest of the hand at a convincing angle? Forget about it!

Hands are typically simplified into box and cylinder forms, but almost every part of the hand is a combination of angles and curves. No one simplified form really describes these parts.

Hands interact with other objects, like all the time. They’re tricky enough to draw on their own… this isn’t helping anyone.

Hands have a lot of bony landmarks, veins, and tendons, all visible at the surface level. These are obstacles when trying to render them realistically.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

I think that about covers the major issues we face when trying to draw hands. Now here are some observations and facts that you can use to fight back!

The width of the first three fingers (index, middle and ring) is the same as the width of the wrist. The pinky and thumb both emanate from the parts of the palm that overhang this line.

The palm of the hand is more of a pentagon than a rectangle (Thanks, Jim Lee!).

The length of the middle finger is approximately the same as the length and width of the palm.

The length of the phalanxes (finger bones in this case) diminishes in size as they get further from the palm. The second (middle) phalanx is 2/3 the length of the first (proximal), and the third (distal) is 2/3 the length of the second. You don’t really notice this since the first knuckle is “inside” the palm and we tend to think of the fingers as starting at the “finger crotch”.

The thumb has no middle phalanx, only a proximal and a distal one.

The thumb is rotated 90 degrees from the angle of the four fingers. So the fingernails point “up” and the thumbnail points “to the side”. This obviously changes depending on the pose, but the thumbnail never really points “up” with the other fingernails unless it is bent backwards, as in poses when all five fingers are pressed against a flat surface. It never really points “down” unless the hand is clamping or pinching… or operating a sock puppet.

The thumb has to sit lower than the palm so that it can flex underneath the hand. The first knuckle of the thumb is almost as far below the index finger as the pinky is far away from the index finger.

The “webbing” of the thumb connects exactly half way up the palm.

Hands are asymmetrical from every angle. Every part, every time.

That is all the knowledge I have so far, and now you have it too! I don’t think any tutorial, video or otherwise, can ever teach you as much as the thousand observations you will make from drawing a thousand hands. There is no substitute for practice. So practice by looking at your hand from the normal vantage point, and from a mirror. Practice from 3D reference like the Handy Art Tool. Practice by copying other artists and animators whose hands appeal to you. Most of all, practice from imagination. PRACTICE! Below is every reference that I can remember that I’ve personally used while practicing hands:

http://www.handyarttool.com/

YT: Jim Lee - How To Draw Hands

http://nk-chan.deviantart.com/art/mini-hand-tutorial-68320552

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-321600866

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-2-322546252

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-Reference-3-330102275

http://kibbitzer.deviantart.com/art/Hands-reference-4-428109721

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/09/hand-reference-part-two.html

http://characterdesignnotes.blogspot.com/2010/11/hand-reference-part-three.html

Do me a favor and share this around, will you? We could all use more light shed on this subject. -Aaron

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I just HAD to finish it! Speed drawings hit hard sometimes!

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WIP -- Will finish this someday, hah.

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My friends and I used to (try to) run a private RO server, and this was one of it’s splash loading screens featuring all our guild characters. I think this was back when I was experimenting with styles a little.

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This is probably from 2009, still an old favorite of mine. She was a fictional Valkyrie character on a private RO server I used to play on, ahh good times.

Ignore the watermark, as it’s from an old name of mine haha.

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I drew this in honor of Daniel Kyre. This may be touchy for some folk.

As someone who personally has suffered clinical depression since early childhood (for eighteen years plus), I am too familiar with suicidal feelings, intent, and even attempts. I never sent it to Markiplier or any of the Cyndago boys, but I feel like posting it now simply to just let it exist outside of my own computer. 

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This is...almost ten years old at this time but still one of my favorites! The background is REALLY dark though, sorry about that. 

This is Zairyon, an original character of mine from a long term story I’ve been working on. 

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Ragnarok Online commission! Also pretty old, haha. Gotta crank out some newer stuff!

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Another NPC from the old Minecraft RPG server I did some work for!

I liked him without the wings, but I can’t seem to find that picture anymore.