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Matt Hawes
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Posted: 07 August 2006 at 8:12am \| IP Logged \| 1

I actually have fun drawing hands and hand gestures (not just the infamous getures). I learned most of that from looking at JB's art as a child. His characters always have such fluid hand gestures.

It must have worked, because I get a lot of compliments on my drawings of hands.

Now feet and backs, on the other hand, are pretty tricky for me, at times.

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Moyer Hall
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Posted: 07 August 2006 at 8:30am \| IP Logged \| 2

JB does the best hands...and feet....EVER. This was one of the first things I
ever noticed about his work, especially with a shoe-less Jennifer Walters
running around. Her feet always looked so good!

I had a few art anatomy classes in college too, and the instructor MADE us
keep a sketch book of strictly hands and feet, for a full semester, it was
one of the 4 or 5 final projects we had to turn in at the end.

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Posted: 07 August 2006 at 6:39pm \| IP Logged \| 3

JB wrote:

It was something of a revelation when I stumbled across an art book that pointed out how the arm and wrist basically grows straight into the middle three fingers, with the thumb and little finger attached to the side.

This has immediately improved my hand drawing. Thanks, JB!

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Troy Nunis
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Posted: 07 August 2006 at 6:47pm \| IP Logged \| 4

agreed - particularly the ramp/hanging palm part -- which makes me wonder, once again - about a JB art instruction book -- he's said that so much of what he does, he doesn't think about how he does it, and wouldn't make a good teacher, and yet so many of these tips have cropped up which are great insights, i wonder if, instead of a "step 1, step 2, how to draw comics" book - he could just do a 101 Art tips insights book, on honing any given aspect of the process rather than the over-view of the process.

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William Lukash
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Posted: 07 August 2006 at 6:59pm \| IP Logged \| 5

C'mon Moyer...you know Rob Liefeld draws the best feet ever. If I'm lucky I can draw a bath.

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Moyer Hall
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Posted: 08 August 2006 at 7:49am \| IP Logged \| 6

Y'got me Bill!

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Stephen Rockwood
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Posted: 08 August 2006 at 1:28pm \| IP Logged \| 7

Bloody brilliant. I've never thought about hands that way. That really simplifies it. Thanks. :)

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Wallace Sellars
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Posted: 08 August 2006 at 2:03pm \| IP Logged \| 8

JB does the best hands...and feet....EVER. This was one of the first things I
ever noticed about his work, especially with a shoe-less Jennifer Walters
running around. Her feet always looked so good!

JB seems to be one of a small number of comic book artists who can draw female hands and feet that look decidedly female.

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