Ask Your Elders: How Can I Be Better At Art?

, I will send you some hands-drawing ability via blood sorcery if you send me back how to draw noses.

Really, it's just lots of practice, unfortunately. This tutorial is how I learned. Another way of thinking about it is as a bunch of simple polygons that you can easily draw with a bit of knowledge of perspective. Just draw a wedge and a buttload of cylinders and fill in the gaps. It's also good to draw them a little bit bigger than you first want to because they always end up too small. At least, they always did to me.

The other convenient thing about hands is you always have at least one fully-poseable reference available at all time. Put your non-drawing hand next to your drawing surface, pose it like you want to draw it, copy it, then mirror the image if it's the wrong hand.