Nancy by Olivia Jaimes for March 04, 2019

She’s right, you know. Goya charged extra for hands.

LOL!!!

Nancy is not the only problem solver associated with this strip.

Didn’t Adam Smith write about this?

How to draw pictures with detail and color, even when you’re an old woman who has never had official training in art -

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I seems this strip is going for the hands off approach.

Short cuts are lazy.

Is there a subliminal message in today’s strip? Or is it just plain luminal?

Was it Linus or Charlie Brown who was told that he was revealing his insecurities through the body language in his drawings of people with hands behind their backs? He said that, no, it was just that he couldn’t draw hands.

And sometimes a cigar is just Occam’s razor.

Is that a Nancy self portrait in the second panel? I like the hair spikes as lion mane/halo effect.

Never mind Adam Smith – that’s a heckuva turnaround from yesterday’s comment about the way hands are drawn.

I like Nancy’s self-portrait in panel 2.She apparently is more talented with paint than pencil, as witness the following self-portrait from an alternate reality… but notice that she still avoids portraying hands…

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Just draw mitten hands

Olivia is having a good time : )

A friend showed me a 50s humor comic (MAD imitation) where, in one story, the artist was determinedly avoiding drawing the characters’ faces at all. It was a take-off on some Tennessee Williams play, and it’s pretty clear he had no clue how to draw Eli Wallach and Shirley Booth, or whoever the stars were. He’d put things in front of their faces (from bowls of liquor to speech balloons) and cut the heads off at the top of the panel or draw them from the back.

On the one hand, I had to admire the dogged persistence of the avoidance bit. On the other hand, the guy couldn’t draw for Shinola. I was briefly hopeful that the story would turn up in The Sincerest Form of Parody, but it seems the pool of MAD fakes was deep enough they didn’t feel obliged to run something that bad. Pity, actually. The stories they did include were of a generally tepid sort. Something this plain awful would have made some of the rest look marginally better.

I always draw them with extra digits for dramatic effect.

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Beautifully done.

So you don’t use your hands to draw? Olivia?

Ingenuity can help to solve many questions and problems said to be unsolvable.

I laughed out loud. (But I’m not showing it ‘cause it’s too hard to draw faces.)

Derrin Bell over at Candorville has the same problem.

I love everything about today’s comic. the pencil pointing up from the bottom of panel 2… Nancy’s self-portrait… Agnes’ terrible advice… so good.

When I was in college for animation, we had Bill Plympton come in as a visiting artist for a week. I remember one lecture he gave devolved into a bit of a rant on how lazy cartoonists and animators get with drawing hands. He then showed us many clips showcasing his own superior hand-drawing skills. Over the course of the week, I began to think of Bill as quite pompous and full of himself, but I will say, he did convince me to take the time to learn how to draw hands well, and to this day I find a lot of pleasure in fitting a good solid depiction of a hand into whatever I’m drawing :D

oh my god, she knows

Nancy’s self portrait has 46 hair spikes. [chef’s kiss]

It’s better to give a hand up than a hand out, or something like that

I think Stephan Pastis has the same issue, which is why the hands always look thin and stick-figure-y.

…If…

the Silver Age comic book artist Gil Kane, who was obsessed with showing flailing open nostrils of his characters, was somehow scooped out of time to draw the NANCY strip to-day, the result might be…uh, interesting.

Feet are hard to draw, too. Just ask Rob Liefeld.