Hand drawing tutorial

When I learn to draw something new, I usually look for the simpliest way to do it - first to learn and get the general form of an object just to make it more complicated and sofisticated in the future.

This time my task is to learn how to draw human hands.

Of course, there are wonderfull book by Burne Hogarth , but I really wanted to start with something really really basic.

So I found this tutorial created by alexds1 from DevianArt.

These are my first tryouts of this great tut. Not perfect, but good for a first tryout.

I hope you will find it as useful as I have.

Developing new habits: 10 sketches per day

Some time ago I've started reading this book called The power of Focus , which is basically speaking about our habits and their influence on our life. While reading the book I've decided it's time to make a place for a new productive habit in my life.

I've decided that from now on I will make at least 10 sketches every day. No matter what kind of sketches - good ones, bad ones; detailed or rough. The goal was to draw per se, to make the maximum amount of sketching possible, a kind of sketching brainstorming.
To keep track on my actions I started adding a DATE at the top of the page and fill it with scetches.

To tell you the truth I was really looking forward to see what the result would be.

And you know what? It was pretty good!!! I can honestly say that I'm pretty proud of myself right now! I won't lie to you and say that I do it every single day as I should but even so my notebook starts to get filled with sketches. Some of them are really good, and some of them even became illustrations already! Like this one.

I just hope this habit will stick and stay with me for a very long time.

What do you think? How do you make yourself just sit and do what is supposed to be done?

Have a great year.