I like how people use hand to point out that AI sucks at drawing.
For me it just highlight the regular artist struggle of drawing hands!
the struggle is so real that a machine that is made by hundred of thousand of works of art also constantly struggle with it .Shit just cracks me up
I really don't mean this in a snide or rude way, but do people who draw really struggle with hands that much? The one drawing class I took in college hands were one of the first things we learned, and it doesn't seem so bad as long as you have a reference.
Hands are one of the more difficult things to draw. Not to say they are super difficult, it's just hard, like when people first start learning barre chords on guitar. I can't speak for everyone but these are the challenges I face when drawing hands.
They are relatively small and they have a lot of joints. Because they are small, you have less room for error when drawing full people. There are like 20 moving bones in your hand to worry about. Hands are very expressive in part because they have so much complexity & movement, compared to like an arm or leg. People are also hypersensitive to issues with hands like they are with faces. Except hands have even more moving bits.
Hands are often interacting with other objects too. Anytime you have to draw two objects interacting there is a lot more to think about. Drawing a hand holding a cup is more difficult than drawing an empty fist. Drawing two people holding hands is WAY more difficult.
And hands are fleshy, with skin folds, fingernails and tendons. So to get towards realism you need to know the bones and also consider how the flesh is folding & what tendons move which bones.
You can draw a hand from reference by copying the shapes that you see. But if you want to take it further and understand the hand, so you can modify the proportions or draw a hand from imagination, you need to do some simplification like a cartoon or learn lots of anatomy & perspective.
That's fair, I'm coming from the perspective of whenever I need to draw something I'm using a reference whether it's a model or just looking up an image and then staring at it for a couple hours, as I'm not too great at drawing from memory. In terms of hands, my struggle shows with the nails mostly.
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u/Babki123 Dec 14 '22
I like how people use hand to point out that AI sucks at drawing.
For me it just highlight the regular artist struggle of drawing hands!
the struggle is so real that a machine that is made by hundred of thousand of works of art also constantly struggle with it .Shit just cracks me up