* I really hate the "helpful" advice people give me of "Just look at your own hands!" I mean, in your average comic book, how many times do you see hands drawn from the POV of the person who *owns* the hand? Same with using a mirror - I can't get my hand comfortably into the positions I need and keep them there for long enough to draw it. Not to mention my hands are small and a bit pudgy, and the hands I need to draw are long, slim, often much bigger in the joints, and all-in-all different from my hands in ways that I can't compensate for when drawing.