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Painting Hands

Painting hands is such a critical piece of the puzzle when it comes to character design since it creates a lot of possible gestures not possible with just the face and the body alone.

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Drawing Female Hands

When drawing female hands, a lot of what defines a female hand is the type of poses the hands are in. Aside from that, just make the fingers slimmer than it is compared to a male hand.

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Drawing Foreshortened Hands

Even with unlimited possibilities of hand positions, breaking down the hand into simple cylindrical shapes and focusing on the flow it creates will help you with drawing foreshortened hands correctly.

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Drawing Hand Movements

After learning the structure and proportions of the hand, we can start drawing hand movements by learning the four different types of pivot points found on the hands.

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Draw the Skeleton in 2d Digital Art

Understand the importance of learning how to draw the skeleton on the road of being a digital painter!

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Figure Drawing Books

While there are a lot of really good books out there, here is a few selection of figure drawing books that have helped me out specifically with building a good artistic foundation.

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Digital Art Resources

Want to learn more about 2d digital art? Use these 2d digital art resources I have gathered so far for supplemental learning opportunities in this wonderful topic!

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Drawing Websites

Here are some drawing websites I frequently visit to look for ideas, tips, or inspirations. These sites are not the definitive list. Rather, these sites are here to expand your mind on what's possible

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Drawing Hands

Drawing hands can be hard for beginners. Luckily, you can always make it easier for yourself by breaking it down into smaller sections like its proportions and its range of movements.

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How to Paint Digital Landscapes

In this section, make the move from painting people to landscapes with an overview of how to paint digital landscapes.

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Painting Snow

Painting snow is not as hard as it first seems. Aside from the shades of white, the only think you need to worry about is how the snow covers an element and the type of textures it can result from it.

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Painting Sand Dunes

Deserts can be beautiful as well as desolate. Here is where painting sand dunes can show the other side of this environment. Be creative with the patterns found on the sandy floor.

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Painting Rocky Deserts

Tie in what you learned about painting mountains, the techniques from painting trees, the basic fundamental color principles, and apply it towards painting rocky deserts.

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Painting Forest Interiors

Painting forests exteriors and digital trees will help you develope the ability for painting forest interiors because it utilizes your ability to see color, perspective, and creating mass with light.

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Painting Forest Exteriors

Take what you know about painting digital trees and expand on it...literally! In this lesson and using the same premise, we are painting forest exteriors

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Painting Digital Trees

Now that you have your tree trunk, build upon it by painting digital trees and adding the much needed foliage. It is a test to see how well you can see mass in space.

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Drawing Tree Trunks

With a little bit of control and creativity, drawing tree trunks gets you to look at space within a confined area. This is due to all the different ways branches can grow from the main trunk.

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Painting Cave Interiors

What will help you the most in painting cave interiors is your knowledge of color. Since we are only dealing with a limited amount of hues, start to use your dodge and burn options to get more color.

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Painting Cave Exteriors

Painting cave exteriors is a lesson in manipulating rock variations and shading. You don’t want to simply paint the cave opening pure black. Instead, sample from the colors around it.

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Painting Mountains

Painting mountains can be one of the most fun elements to paint. That’s because there is a lot of things going on like tree lines and various rock structures. Use the power of suggestion to help you.

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Paint Rock Variations

Just as there are different types of rock textures, there are different configurations when you paint rock variations: vertical, horizontal, cracks, and angular configurations.

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Paint Rock Textures

Learn to paint rock textures with these four different types of arrangements: hard edge, soft edge, spotted, and striped variations.

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Draw Rocks

Learning how to draw rocks can be hard because of the random variations that can occur. This is where learning the basics of contour and gesture drawings can help a great deal.

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Painting Landscape Elements

This will be the primer for how landscape are handled on this site. We will discuss painting landscape elements of rocks, forests, snow, and sand as the key components of painting landscape.

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Painting Clouds

This section will teach you many different ways of painting clouds by giving a thorough walkthrough of the common types of clouds found in the atmosphere.

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Cloud Diagram

As an extra exercise, learn to create your own cloud diagram with the clouds you have painted in previous lessons. Think of it as making your very own reference cheat sheet for clouds.

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Paint Cirrus Clouds

Like strands of wisp cotton, these clouds are the highest found in the atmosphere. You will be using your dodge and burn tools here as an easy means of learning how to paint cirrus clouds.

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Paint Cirrostratus Clouds

What's special about these clouds are the ice crystals in it. When it reflects light, it makes a nice shine. Hence, you can create beautiful clear skies by learning how to paint cirrostratus clouds.

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Paint Cirrocumulus Clouds

Here is a change of pace. We will use quick methods of painting small cloud patterns in this section. In other words, we will be duplicating cloud layers to paint cirrocumulus clouds.

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