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The feet should be more or less the same length of the forearms (from the elbow to the wrist)!

Feet being too little or too far from the style will make the character look like they're gonna fall at any minute!

NOTE: This works for normal proportions. For cartoon ones, hands and feet CAN be bigger, but they might need to be proportionate and not bigger than the head!

Depends on the kind of comics you want to make: japanese comics have some rules, american ones have others french have others, and so do webcomics etc.

Some important rules to remember are:

Imagine panels as scenes of a movie. When the scenes changes, the panel changes;

Important scenes should have the biggest panels, to emphasise the importance;

Short, to the point dialogues are keys. Each new line is a new balloon, no stops in a balloon, you just use another one;

Balloons should take max less than half of the panel and be short to help the reader not lose focus;

If the dialogue is important, use a blank panel so the reader concentrates on the dialogue only.

Action goes in the reading direction: if you read left to right, a punch goes from left to right to guide the reader better;

People facing the opposite direction of reading stop the rhythm, use them for dramatic pauses in important revelations;

Experiment with panels, dialogues and characters for interesting effects!

For the rest, it's all trial and errors and reading guides online for in-depth tricks!

Thx Gramma! :DD

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Hands are really tricky, and the problem is I LOVE drawing them, so it comes natural to me, but I'll try my best to explain!

Draw an inverted trapezoid with a round upper side. That is very important to get the length of the fingers.;

Add an inverted triangle on one side of the trapezoid. Depending on the side, you can draw left or right hand!;

BALLS! Following the shape of the upper half, draw an arc and place 5 little circles on it. One MUST be on the triangle, two must be close to the edges of the trapezoid, and the other two must be at the same distance (more or less) from the two circles at the sides. Then, draw another arc above the first one but covering only the 4 circles on the trapezoid;

Add lines! The circles are the joints, so you need to 2 "curve" the lines there (or you can go straight if you want to draw a full hand signing "stop"). The tips of the fingers are round, usually, I make them sharper for females and rounder for males, but you can mix things around!

PERSPECTIVE! By putting in perspective trapezoid and triangle, you can draw any type of hand in any position, basically!

TIP: I suggest copying or tracing hands from photos to help your hand muscles and brain get used to and confident with the movements needed to draw hands. If a pose is too difficult, I usually snap a photo of my hand in the pose I want and copy it (or trace it if I get too frustrated, lmao).

For KND hands!

No Trapezoid here, we square up like kids!

Draw a square with VEEERY soft angles, and add circles on the top and side for the fingers. Side one is shorter, other ones follow an arc above them (like the normal hand)

Wave is the way! Before drawing, exercise drawing waves, because that's the key! They must be larger on top and smaller on the bottom side;

Or, you can draw 3 circles between the main 4 fingers on top of the square and a little triangle between the thumb and the index finger;

Connect everything following the lines! Remember the waves: bigger on the tip, smaller on the bottom! No straight line, curve everything! Oh, also wrists are just like... sticks, lmao, best feature of the show!

I think that's all!

Sorry for being late!

Draw the body/body part you want to put the clothes on. This helps knowing where certain folds will be placed!

Oversized clothes need wavy lines to sell the illusion of big and fluffly! The folds are smaller/closer at folded joints, because fabric gets pushed together by the closeness of the body parts! On straight parts, the fabric tends to fall down because the clothes are loose on the body. So draw folds mainly on the lower parts!

Add curves! Again, tighter curves at the joints, larger ones for the parts where the fabric falls. Use "s" and "z" lines for straight parts where a joint is (ex: elbows or knees) since fabric tends to get wrinkly around there!

Joints may be tricky at first, that's why it's good to draw the body underneath it first, so you can see where to draw tighter folds!

Oversizes means larger than the body! If you have a cartoony style, use round lines and not straight ones for the whole clothes! That way they look fluffy, comfy and big!

Sorry if this makes little sense, it's a no day for english today lmao!

A line can make a character stand up better! Have you ever noticed that, sometimes, you draw a character and it looks like it's about to fall?? To avoid them falling, draw a vertical line and align the head to the legs/feet! That way, no one will fall! If one foot only is down, align everything on that leg!

Did you know you can kick your butt with your own feet??

That's because the leg is almost the same length as the tight, and the heel ends just barely behind your... behind!

So, when you draw someone kneeling down, heels should be either immediately behind the butt or under it (even if that was used as a Japanese punishment because it's pretty painful, especially doing that under beans lmao).