*I didn’t realize one of the gifs was too big @ 7.8mb I got it down to 2.3 and that was small enough to post.*

So whatever it is you are drawing…yes I think drawing a lot will help you devlop your own voice. I don’t expect people to draw as much as I do. But if you are pursuing improvement it could be worth it to try. I prefer to have a multifaceted view when I dive into a keyword. In this case of hands. So I have to this point I have tried drawing a lot of different looks.

Beyond that I want to think about individual motivation. EXPRESSION, Maybe it was a memory of a relative smoking a cigarette and how big their hand looked to me. Maybe it’s the anti fascist salute like the picture above.

I was affected by seeing footage of people searching through garbage in the Phillipines for fried chicken to refry and sell as Pug Pug. The feeling of the hands when you make your fingers seize up and just bend your figure tips/distal phalanges. A peace sign or a gun we make with our fingers etc. I will place those clips below as gifs. See what you can pull out from it

Or what associations do you make?

So hands or whatever you are making picture of…yes studying is important…but also considering what you are feeling while you make art…what you are trying to communicate are also worth considering. And also accepting no matter how much you think your work means one thing to you, once it goes before an audience, they could see something very different. We have both individual and collective experiences. This was much longer than I thought it was going to be. KEEP MAKING ART KIDS!!!