haha yeah it's strange how I pushed through at the last minute. I really didn't want to stay on faces for any longer really, because while doing WIPs I'm thinking "how the heck do I do hands?" more and more.
most hand references are often taken by the person posing the hand, so there is often a lot of foreshortening and perspective issues as the camera is really close. I use a camera with remote shutter/timer, so I can zoom in from further away and get a more natural perspective on the hands, plus angles that I wouldn't be able to take with my other hand, including 2 hand shots.
yeah I'm thinking I'll do some "gestures" using Sketchup and copy some manga backgrounds. While my skill is technically there, I dont have much of a workflow, or creativity when it comes to backgrounds, so as with everything else, practice, practice, practice XD
Having the goal of Youtube tutorials/timelapses is nice as well.
the books were relatively easy though, I made one book first then copied it along a few, changed the width and copied a few etc. then randomly picked them and changed the height/depth, and repeated a few times.
Maybe that'll be my next tutorial as it's nice and easy. thanks for the idea :P
it is my strong belief that there is an insanely fast way to do almost anything (to a decent quality as well), and often until I find that super fast way, I don't spend much time doing it because I think that I'm wasting my time haha