A Question of Research

In my drawing practice I am now still working on the human anatomy, still focusing on the hand, within these pages there are some good drawings of the hand but I'm still not that happy with it, it feels a bit too round and cartoony not really what I wanted. But maybe this is what I should be trying to look for, not creating something real and life like but more what I am comfortable drawing and creating in my own style. Something that I am HAPPY with, not something I think other people will like. Taking this idea I then decided that it may be better for me just to doodle, so I did that and let myself just draw what came to into my head. I feel this is where I have made a bit of a breakthrough in my drawing technique, while I still think its a bit amateur, I just need to keep drawing to improve this!, I feel my confidence in myself is beginning to grow and I trust myself more to be able to transfer what I am thinking down onto the page.   This small doodle of someone shouting "...

  From looking at the illustration books it mentioned that to get better at drawing you needed to first have an understanding of human anatomy and how the body looks, so this is where I will start. I want to follow their process to see if it can indeed improve my drawing skills and make me better at illustration, starting with the body felt odd to me as I had never done that before so I will start with the hand and see how good I can get at doing that. These are my first attempts at drawing a hand just from a reference image of my own hand, I think it's a good start but you can really see how I need to keep practising at this as the drawings are just not that strong and not where I want them to be.