History Main / HandsInPockets

* Katie Tiedrich admits in the description of [[https://www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/a-lick-of-sense this]] ''Webcomic/AwkwardZombie'' page that she hates drawing the top of [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess Midna's]] helmet, and thus always puts her at the top of panels in this page and subsequent comics including her.

* this is common for young, inexperienced artists, who are decent at drawing faces, but struggle with hands. Often, they also struggle with symmetry, so one eye is drawn first, then the other is hidden with bangs or an eyepatch.

* {{Parodied}} in the Damsel route of ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess''. [[spoiler:As the Princess's {{Animesque}} appearance starts deteriorating, her final form has her hands perpetually behind her back to really sell the "preteen who just got their first 'how to draw manga' book" style. The Shifting Mound doesn't even bother moving her arms like she does with the Princess' other forms.]]

* {{Parodied}} in the Damsel route of ''VisualNovel/SlayThePrincess. [[spoiler:As the Princess's {{Animesque}} appearance starts deteriorating, her final form has her hands perpetually behind her back to really sell the "preteen who just got their first 'how to draw manga' book" style. The Shifting Mound doesn't even bother moving her arms like she does with the Princess' other forms.]]

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 LazyArtist Can get extremely glaring with something the audience is expecting to see; hands, in particular, are often considered very difficult to draw.

Strictly speaking, any active ''avoidance'' by a LazyArtist 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. Extremely common with amateur artists. 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.

'''Greg:''' Well, let's see... You'll play video games, drink as much soda as you want, comment on whatever you feel like, go wherever you want, and do as you please.\\

'''Greg:''' Well, there is the limited hand mobility, but you'll get used to that.

* The infamous Creator/RobLiefeld, among [[MostCommonSuperpower other anatomical habits]], keeps characters' feet obscured or off panel. And when they are on the panel, they're always standing on their tip toes, [[strike: sometimes]] ''always'' for no apparent reason. He either refuses to or can't draw feet in a normal standing position. There was at least one occasion where the characters didn't have any feet, their legs just ended in flared stumps. Which would have been just fine if the rest wasn't in Rob's normal "I actually think this is what real people look like" style. Hence, the ever infamous [[https://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/4/21/2960811/liefeld4]] [[http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/6/14/3084348/the-second-40-worst-rob-liefeld-drawings And its sequel.]]

* The infamous Creator/RobLiefeld, among [[MostCommonSuperpower other anatomical habits]], keeps characters' feet obscured or off panel. And when they are on the panel, they're always standing on their tip toes, [[strike: sometimes]] ''always'' for no apparent reason. He either refuses to or can't draw feet in a normal standing position. There was at least one occasion where the characters didn't have any feet, their legs just ended in flared stumps. Which would have been just fine if the rest wasn't in Rob's normal "I actually think this is what real people look like" style. Hence, the ever infamous [[http://progressiveboink.com/archive/robliefeld.html Worst 40 Liefieldisms.]] [[http://www.progressiveboink.com/2012/6/14/3084348/the-second-40-worst-rob-liefeld-drawings And its sequel.]]

* this is common for young, inexperienced artists, who are decent at drawing faces, but struggle with hands. Often, they also struggle with symmetry, so one eye is drawn first, then the other is hidden with PeekABangs or an eyepatch