:* It's really detailed! From hair to clothes to anatomy! Something doesn't look quite right with the color palette you're going to use, though.
teach me those arms and hands
Wow, thank you. ;-; I was originally going to just use the blue, but I thought that wouldn't be enough for coloring, so I chose the colors in her hair and I'll try to do a gradient-type thing with the whole body. I wanted to use more subdued colors, but I might change them up.
I always start a drawing out by doing a body-base and then adding the clothes on top. I sometimes spend a really long time doing the base, even if a lot of it gets erased out for the clothing (this time I tried
not to spend so much time on the base). It can be a big help to even gesture out the general shape of the arm and hand when all that's visible are the fingers. What also helps me with arms is seeing how long each section of it is compared to the other sections, or measuring the entire length of it in comparison to other parts of the body. I do this with other people's drawings (and sometimes real-life photos) and try to apply the proportions to my own stuff. I'm still working on it, though (I think my Lamia drawing is a bit too tall/long).
And if none of that works, there's always the timeless classic: "Draw it out, look at it, erase it." Rinse/Repeat this until you get something you're somewhat happy with, or until you get sick of it and say "Screw it, good enough".
