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People Are Trying To Follow A Viral Hand-Drawing Tutorial, And They’re Failing So Bad, It’s Good (24 Pics)
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Recently, Twitter page @SatisfyingDaily uploaded a drawing tutorial clip (originally created by chay suado), showing an artist drawing a hand using soft, gentle strokes that look pretty easy to mimic. Naturally, many people immediately thought they found a hack that can make them the next Da Vinci in a matter of seconds. However, the results that they got were pretty ... disappointing, and this "simple" pencil sketch turned out to be rather difficult. To see if that was really the case, more and more Twitter users gave this hand drawing a go, giving birth to a new viral internet challenge. Continue scrolling to check out some of the funniest fails!
Twitter users are trying to mimic this "simple" sketch but the results that they're getting are hilariously proving it to be way more difficult than they thought
Image credits: Satisfying Daily
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Of all parts of the body, many consider the hand to be the hardest to draw. Quite a few artists have stories of how they would keep their characters' hands behind their backs or in their pockets, doing everything in their power to avoid drawing them as much as possible. Yet paradoxically, they are our most readily available reference, being in our field of vision all day, every day.
As of this article, the clip that started the challenge has already been viewed 7.84M times and generated over 157K likes and 67K retweets.
Obviously, looking at all these "attempts," it's apparent that we don't always see the same things.
looks like some just didn't really try-idk...but i'm sure i wouldn't get it, either. sorry for these people
I wouldn't call that a "simple" sketch. As soon as I saw the gif, I immediately thought of all the technicalities that don't make that one a simple tutorial for someone who's trying to learn. It's just someone's personal way of drawing it. It's cool, and the challenges are funny, though.
Space between your curly cues, the length of the curly cue's tails, the angle you use, the angle you draw each of the fingertips... that's when I gave up. Lol!
Exactly! Personally, I might be even able to do it, because I have experience (although my confidence would be more like 50-50). But as a tutorial, it's always much easier to start with geometrical bodies and put your drawing target inside. Or make a bland geometrical shape and add details and refinements one by one. If you're gonna make measurements, connecting dots is also a good technique. Whatever works best for your brain.
It looks hard at first, but you have to keep practicing as this is the only way to improve. Drawing on the right side of your brain by Betty Edwards is a good book for those interested in developing your drawing skills.
If you only keep practicing this, you might be able to replicate the exact image, but will never learn to draw hands. A hand in a different position will still be a challenge. Anatomy is the key - knowing the bone structure and how the joints move and how the muscles are attached.
That book is phenomenal. I now know to draw what I SEE and not what my brain thinks an object is supposed to look like. Great recommendation!
Haven't read that book, but in a YouTube video I heard about this theory. Don't remember if that video was on here or I just stumbled across the video on YouTube. That is indeed really great advice. Even though I don't my draw myself, I get the point. Though I know it is harder to do than just hearing it. You really have to reset your brain if you were drawing the way your brain thinks an object is supposed to look like, before. But if you start drawing after this knowledge, it might be easier to put this technique to use?
Hehehe.. Art is not easy. Not at all.
I wouldn't call that a "simple" sketch. As soon as I saw the gif, I immediately thought of all the technicalities that don't make that one a simple tutorial for someone who's trying to learn. It's just someone's personal way of drawing it. It's cool, and the challenges are funny, though.
Space between your curly cues, the length of the curly cue's tails, the angle you use, the angle you draw each of the fingertips... that's when I gave up. Lol!
Exactly! Personally, I might be even able to do it, because I have experience (although my confidence would be more like 50-50). But as a tutorial, it's always much easier to start with geometrical bodies and put your drawing target inside. Or make a bland geometrical shape and add details and refinements one by one. If you're gonna make measurements, connecting dots is also a good technique. Whatever works best for your brain.
It looks hard at first, but you have to keep practicing as this is the only way to improve. Drawing on the right side of your brain by Betty Edwards is a good book for those interested in developing your drawing skills.
If you only keep practicing this, you might be able to replicate the exact image, but will never learn to draw hands. A hand in a different position will still be a challenge. Anatomy is the key - knowing the bone structure and how the joints move and how the muscles are attached.
That book is phenomenal. I now know to draw what I SEE and not what my brain thinks an object is supposed to look like. Great recommendation!
Haven't read that book, but in a YouTube video I heard about this theory. Don't remember if that video was on here or I just stumbled across the video on YouTube. That is indeed really great advice. Even though I don't my draw myself, I get the point. Though I know it is harder to do than just hearing it. You really have to reset your brain if you were drawing the way your brain thinks an object is supposed to look like, before. But if you start drawing after this knowledge, it might be easier to put this technique to use?
Hehehe.. Art is not easy. Not at all.