Don't shed a tear, shed a shell

Storyteller's roadmap: a useful guide for writers in three different stages -> planning, writing, revising

writing realistic injuries: as it says. A useful guide to write em properly.

TheBump.com: typical naming website but also provides the origin and meanings of the names. Useful for extra research.

In different languages.com: you can look up a word and it will spit out every variation in all languages. Though it only works for singular words and does not show multiple versions of a word like Google translate would.

Springhole.net: A collection of Outfit generators.

Colorhexa.com - color names: as the name says, it shows a list of all colors by name and hex.

Britannica: has obviously a lot of stuff on it but this refers to the list of ancient civilizations. (Sadly it has a chatbot now so... )

Family education.com - baby name search: basically a name generator with filters for meanings, origin etc.

Behind the name.com: as it says, it can be used to find out more about a name and uncover it's history etc.

Family search.com - surnames: as it says, can uncover the meaning and or origin of one's surname.

Sfwa.com - fantasy world building questions: everything one could ever know about the world they build. Extremely useful, though not required. That just depends on the type of writer that you are.

Tabletop audio.com: Ambience audios for any ocassion.

Creative uncut.com: library for game design, concept art and more. Also excellent for character references.

✨️Voilà✨️

As always, until you've memorized some hand positions, use a reference. I used my own hand for this one

1] Base shape

2] Block out fingers (More on this later)

3] Little thumb nub

4] Finish thumb (I can't explain this bit, thumbs make no sense to me. I just throw one on the page and hope it looks like a thumb lol)

5] Thin little bubbles inside the finger block so your brain knows where the fingers are supposed to be (these do not have to be perfect whatsoever) Depending on the pose, drawing lines rather than bubbles would be better

6] Wrist

7] A little bit of mining off-camera

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Here's some more doodles I did that hopefully explain something lol it's a mess

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For le fingers, I start with the top-of-the-finger line, go straight, down, up and out. I don't give fingers all their joints because it's easier for me

I should make it very clear that this is NOT how one should draw fingers, but this is how I do it 👍

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With all those techniques, here are some examples of how I would draw these hand positions

I didn't erase any of the guidelines so you can kinda see the process better (??)

Now, more on the fingers. I feel I must stress the importance of the finger block

I find that hands always ALWAYS look better when I don't draw every finger. I often alter hand positions slightly just so I can clump 2 or more fingers together. You can see that a bit in the above examples

Ideally, one would know anatomy better and draw each finger like they deserve, but I'm not there yet 😅😅