Jolly spiffing!

(o)(o) <- across the room... <- in your face...

I can't stop laughing at the Sesame Street - Near and far video. XDDDDD

Anyway, you're amazing for posting this. =x

Good shit.

Faveing because I DO forget this sometimes XD heehee nice little tutorial.

reminds me of the boss from ocarina of time, the shadow temple boss

I'm really glad a genie will never get me three wishes, cus if one did, the first thing that'd happen is that everybody's hands would turn into circular blobs...

NEAR... FAR...

WHEREVER YOU ARE

NO FUCK YOU

haha

Now I feel defective because my hands are almost the same size as my head (bottom of chin to above hairline). :c

big hands are sexy.

Unfortunately his hands are normal and he has a tiny face.

Horses prove that big face = sexy. Nothing against you tiny faces out there. Just saying.

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3779715/

this is so cute and useful. bravo!

Bonus Multiplier:
Invoking one of the funniest bits Classic Sesame Street ever did.
That and Front & Back.
Grover IS The Man.

NNNGHHN!
Fucking itchy trigger finger!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZhEcRrMA-M

I already knew this, but I've still been having issues. For some reason having it laid out in a simple, neat format - with the hand imprint on the face to emphasize the "normal" hand size in each situation - helps a lot. :o

I always just get the sizing to the head ratio wrong D: but this helps! :3

This is... SO AWESOME.
Thank you for this quick reference! :D

I spent a season working on the Dilbert animated cartoon and always had problems with this. Those character's hands are freakin' TINY.

Consistantly I'd quickly rough out my scene, and then immediately go back thru and redraw all the hands half the size I'd originally drawn them so they'd be on model. :P

Looks like your model got face-fived HARD.

O SNAPS

Simple but kind of easy to screw up.

Thanks!

Thank you for this!!

I think feet are even harder to get right in this regard. We perceive them as small because they're usually so far away from our point of view, but then you get close and holyshnikiesit'sasbigasmyforearm :D

A very useful tutorial, thank you.

I am so very concerned. I notice this error in my own work far too late into the rendering process.

Thanks for the helpful image!

Very useful. Thanks!

How would you suggest doing limbs that are extremely foreshortened? It seems every time I try to do this it looks terrible and I end up copping out on it, even when I use a reference. I'd like to be able to do more interesting poses.

Foreshortening is incredibly hard to show. Even the most proficient artists struggle with it. Most people avoid it, or find some personal workaround. It can look awkward because you are drawing attention to the fact that the image is a 2-dimensional thing trying to show a 3-dimensional phenomenon. Even when it's photographically perfect, foreshortening is weird for the eyes/brain to understand.

I would simply avoid it. There are so many other poses and POV that can show whatever it might be, or communicate the same point without the awkwardness.

Don't sweat it :)

Thanks for the advice! :)

Push it so that the hand/foot pretty much entirely obscures the leg/arm, then you can fake it a lot more easily. Especially if you exaggerate the perspective - my rule of thumb for foreshortening is "draw the near part twice as big as you think you have to - even when taking this rule into account".

Thank you!

Kazuo Umezu to the rescue!

http://images.nipponcinema.com/tag/.....g?v=1330762852
http://electricantzine.com/images/s.....zz_cosplay.jpg

The first one didn't work but the second one made me smile, haha. :)

LOVED the 'near - far' reference. But don't go getting too good. You'll make others green with envy. And as I'm sure you know, it isn't easy being green....

If 3 light paragraphs = TL;DR then there's something wrong with you.

For hands i usually just draw 4 hot dogs being eaten by a clam, and then connect an arm to it.

My hands are nearly as big as my head though.
Huh.

Big Hands

Now THIS, is a helpful advice~ *favs it up*

Thanks! Always useful

From the preview and title I assumed it would be about fighting Andross in Star Fox 64. X)