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You ever have those moments where it seems like you can only draw at certien times? It's like, you manage to take your time on something and you apply yourself on one thing and it turns out great, sometimes it even turns out exactly as you want it too. But then you do just as much on a similar project, either sometime later or right after that or whatever, and you just plain can't draw. I don't know, maybe I need a break or something, seeing as how I haven't really been applying what I've learned recently to the comic.

I have Godhands. Yes I do.

Everyone gets stupidhands on some days. Just be glad it isn't permanent.

My hands and I have a tacit agreement. I'm good to them, and they're good to me.

Though they're still getting me back for giving them frostbite last winter... vengeful things...

My hands are cooperative at all times. It's my creativity and motivation that need kicking.

My hands are fine. It's the brain that can't work sometimes.

Considering that arthritis is lurking for me in the not-so-distant future, I'm happy with what I have now.

I started a topic about this sometime back...

...it was agreed that pretty much everyone has their "can't draw worth crap" days. It's an unavoidable fact of drawing.

my hands work fine, it's my brain that has the issues. I cannot draw unless I am perfectly inspired. Then I draw till I wanna die. Once I drew 20 pages for my comic in 18 hours... I felt seriously disabled due to need to draw

I have discovered that my ability to draw is directly related to my stress level. When I have a confrontation with someone, I can't draw for the rest of the day, when I'm particurly worried about a piece coming out good, my hands shake and the inking is dreadful.
So yes, but I don't blame my hands, it's all in connection to my emotions.

I suffer from carpel tunnel and arthritis in my hands, elbows and starting to show in shoulders. So pain causes the drawing stoopidity. My pencils are aboot 3/4 inch in diameter to help draw longer which actually keeps me able to draw. So any little tool that keeps me drawing, even when it's with stoopid hands, is better than nothing.

My hands do not wanna draw 'seriously' at times too when I try to sketch and stuff for my comic. So yeah, I know that feeling.

My right hand only does what I want it to do when I'm using a pencil. The instant I pick up a pen, it goes, "Ha ha!" and starts disobeying the signals from my brain.

My left hand thinks my right hand is really immature.

The way I've always felt about it is that I have a certain amount of artistic talent stored up in me at any given time. If I use it up on something (or several somethings if they're small), then I have to wait for it to recharge before I can do anything other than the most basic of crappy doodles.

I just started getting my hands back..... so far so god.... now if I can only come up with more stuff to draw...


-MrEff-

I can't draw when it comes to illustrations for work. "A birthday cake? Wuzzat?"

I draw best at three in the morning, or before noon if I'm sitting at the kitchen table.

I draw really horribly if I'm too full of food, sleepy, or drunk.
I just draw HILARIOUSLY when I'm drunk... or so I'm told.

My hands will just *fail* on me a lot. Sometimes they hurt, others they just feel mysteriously weak, or shakey, or otherwise un-surgeon-like which keeps me from displaying my virtuosity.

GRRRR!

A girl once told me my hands were very smart.