Hands are the part of the figure most artists quietly avoid. A sleeve gets conveniently long. A character's arm disappears behind their back. The composition just happens to cut off at the wrist. It's not laziness, it's the entirely rational response to hands being genuinely difficult. They're complex, they move in hundreds of configurations, and small proportion errors read immediately as wrong to any viewer because we spend our whole lives looking at hands. The good news is

Anime figures look deceptively simple. Two big eyes, clean lines, a fluid silhouette, and yet the moment you sit down to draw one from imagination, something goes wrong. The torso is too short. The legs are different lengths. The shoulders sit at an angle that makes the whole character look like they're falling sideways. This isn't a skill problem. It's a proportions problem. And proportions, unlike artistic instinct, can be learned systematically. This guide covers anime bod