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Hands in Pockets

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20 feature instances
16 referencing feature instances

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Hands in Pockets	comment	Strictly speaking, any active avoidance by an artist, especially a beginner or amateur, of drawing a particular thing. This is usually self-admitted and, if it carries an apologetic tone, the implication is that trying to draw a difficult scene element would hamper rather than help the work rather than it just being a Lazy Artist. Can get extremely glaring with something the audience is expecting to see; hands, in particular, are often considered very difficult to draw. A hand is a mess of overlapping and foreshortened digits, odd wrinkles, and tendons poking out in the strangest of places — plus, while there are only so many different positions that, say, arms or ears or eyes can assume, hands can be found in an almost infinite variety of poses holding an infinite number of things. And considering people tend to naturally focus on hands, one minor mistake can ruin an entire picture. There are entire sections in art libraries and entire university courses devoted only to hands. Bare human feet have a similar problem, though it's not quite as bad because of how less flexible a foot is from a hand, and so there are less poses they can assume. Compare Cheated Angle. Examples
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Hands in Pockets / int_1409f1e9	comment	Real Life Comics (of which a fair amount is a so-called Cut and Paste Comic) avoids hands, and the author does a few Lampshade Hangings about the characters' habit of keeping hands in their pockets.
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Hands in Pockets / int_14f9297e	comment	Gary Larson (The Far Side) has admitted that the reason most of his characters have either Eye Glasses or Eyes Always Shut is because he has trouble drawing eyes.
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Hands in Pockets / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Tite Kubo's apparent aversion to backgrounds, especially when you compare later chapters to the first ones, has become somewhat memetic.
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Hands in Pockets / int_23465101	type	Hands in Pockets
Hands in Pockets / int_23465101	comment	On Wings, Casey reveals that she can only draw people as caricatures, and always draws skis on them because she can't draw feet. Video
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Hands in Pockets / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: In the commentary track for "The Otto Show", it is gleefully pointed out how in the concert scene, nearly everybody was drawn with long bangs◊ so the artists didn't need to draw eyes.
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Hands in Pockets / int_3f4a104b	comment	Scott Adams has admitted that he likes putting hats on Dogbert (from Dilbert) because he finds the top of Dogbert's head hard to draw. He also saves time by "drawing only the feet of dead people". He also only draws the lens-end of TV cameras because he doesn't know what they look like from behind.
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Hands in Pockets / int_60878253	comment	Done only by Naomi, for the sake of a joke in The Last Days of FOXHOUND, she gets called out by Grey Fox/Cyborg Ninja for doing this. She cites the cold for this habit.
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Hands in Pockets / int_86c3beca	comment	Kaja and Phil Foglio, of Girl Genius fame, seem to avoid drawing Von Pinn's legs and feet. When you see a full picture of her, you understand that these are hard and time-consuming to draw.
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Hands in Pockets / int_a6543322	comment	ZUN, the creator of Touhou Project, is known for drawing characters in poses where their hands are obscured, as well as never drawing ears (typically with plenty of hats). Since he is the single programmer, artist, and composer for the entire project (and his music is generally praised), the fans giggle, but they generally forgive him for it. The reason for the ears (almost) never being drawn has since become fairly clear: He draws them looking Pointy. And in an inversion, he gave Rin Kaenbyou human ears, then cat ears (since she's a Cat Girl) and forgot to erase her human ears; in other words, she uniquely has 2 pairs. Fortunately, Art Evolution took place and newer artworks from feature decently-drawn hands. Junko's artwork from Touhou Kanjuden ~ Legacy of Lunatic Kingdom actually showcases her open hands, with proper shading.
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Hands in Pockets / int_ac278b73	type	Hands in Pockets
Hands in Pockets / int_ac278b73	comment	Similarly, in Wish angels and demons shrunk to chibi forms during the night or day respectively, or when sprinkled with a certain potion was at least in part a work-saving measure for the chief artist.
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Hands in Pockets / int_ac4b6a62	comment	Questionable Content rarely shows its characters' feet (mostly just because of the composition of the shots). One poster featuring full-length views of several main characters was captioned "proof that I can, in fact, draw feet".
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Hands in Pockets / int_b0fc9724	comment	One sketch on Saturday Night Live pokes fun of the infamous Unabomber police sketch◊ by having the actor playing the sketch artist claim that he's not good at drawing eyes or hair. He then pulls out various sketches of the Unabomber with the same sunglasses and wearing a variety of silly hats.
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Hands in Pockets / int_b2ac2311	comment	Referenced in one Peanuts strip where Charlie Brown commented on a picture of a man drawn by Linus:
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Hands in Pockets / int_b4967d43	type	Hands in Pockets
Hands in Pockets / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog characters lack toes, as seen on Big the Cat and Tikal and official artwork of Tails◊ and Amy.◊
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Hands in Pockets / int_d5ddd6c1	comment	An odd example in PokÃ©mon: The Series. The anime has no qualms about drawing characters' hands filling the screen, but except for a handful of early episodes (and inconsistently in later ones◊), fingernails are never seen (running contrary to the art style of the games, which has no such qualms). Averted starting with PokÃ©mon the Series: XY; since then, fingernails are properly drawn.
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Hands in Pockets / int_db47f8fc	comment	Most of the characters have limited hairstyles in The Walkyverse, due to the artist having a hard time drawing hair. Lampshaded in the comics and in his commentaries. One early plot of Shortpacked! had Amber getting a makeover, including a fancy new hairstyle, which only lasted the arc (the excuse being "curling is expensive" (it's not); real reason, "curls are hard to draw"). Amber did at least get a newer hairstyle from her inception, though everyone else is pretty much stuck with their character model hair. Word of God is that's why most characters with glasses are rarely seen with them off; he generally starts drawing their heads with the glasses as the reference point and has to adjust majorly to draw them without them.
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Hands in Pockets / int_ddf0a46c	comment	Chainsawsuit: "I like this guy's art, but you can tell he hates drawing hands and feet." The superhero in the comic has his hands obscured by a lamp, a chandelier, a pelican, newspaper, and a roof. And even the pelican's feet are obscured. Probably a Take That! at Rob Liefeld, above.
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Hands in Pockets / int_df424ee8	comment	In-universe, Nozaki of Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun is a manga artist who has little skill at drawing backgrounds and perspective. He mentions that a lot of his early work (one-shots and contest entries and so on) used as few backgrounds as possible and covered this with close-ups and manga effects.
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Hands in Pockets / int_e9e265b6	comment	Fire Emblem: Awakening character models have no feet. According to the developers, this was because they were uncertain how many joints the 3DS could render and animate.
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Hands in Pockets / int_fb8549c	comment	Deadpool's Original Sin tie-in, set mostly during The '90s, boasts a Liefeld-esque drawing style, complete with everyone's feet remaining hidden from view. When the comic shifts to The New '10s, it undergoes both a change in art style, and an immediate abandoning of this trope - As SHIELD agent Scott Adsit ties his shoes, the panel closes up on them.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Hands in Pockets	processingCategory2	Hand Tropes
Nancy (Comic Strip) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Say Cheese and Die! / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
JCruz	seeAlso	Hands in Pockets
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Flower Knight Dakini (Manga) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Manga) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Night Court (2023) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Wings / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Awkward Zombie (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Chainsawsuit (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Eureka Seven: Paradox Makers (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Sam & Fuzzy (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
Strange Planet (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
The Last Days of FOXHOUND (Webcomic) / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets
The Ren & Stimpy Show / int_393ad459	type	Hands in Pockets

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