/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

Aye, sorry that happened to you. I you are still serious of passionate about art, I'd say continue to practice and draw with your other hand and you improve with it eventually.

>>2835746

*If
*you'll

>>2835734
You're gonna end up having to use your non-dominant hand for everything from now on anyway.
I think drawing would be a good way to train your dexterity for things other than drawing too.

>>2835734
RSI rendered my dominant hand useless, so I used my other hand to do everything, and guess what- I overused the other hand too. Just a warning not to do everything with your remaining hand if you can help it. Or at least take it easy and strengthen your one arm first

>>2835734
I know it seems impossible now, but you really will get the hang of it if you practice every day. It will take a while though. Start simple, like with circles and lines and move onto more complicated stuff once you can confidently draw circles and lines as well as you did with your other hand. Sorry that happened to you, good luck.

What does matter is your memory. All the experience is there. Your hand is like a tool and right now you are trying to learn how to use a new tool. Just try to see it like that possibility you will even better.

>>2835734
^never gonna make it
In all seriousness though, you will be doing EVERYTHING with your non-dominant hand now anyways, dont pile the frustration and the grief for your lost hand on drawing alone. As you improve your dexterity with your other hand your technical ability will soon match what you have in artistic skills.
It sucks though. That is just fucking horrible and unfair to have this shit impact an innocent hobby of yours as if your whole life wasnt enough. Im sorry for you OP.
See it that way: how fucking cool will it be not only to draw well, but also having overcome this limitation?

>>2835734
you still have to use a hand so get practicing

>>2835734
There is hope, anon, don't give up.

>>2835734
Frazetta had a terrible stroke and lost the physical ability to draw with his dominant hand.

He relearned very quickly.

OP, the information is still in your brain, eventually your brain will transfer that physical muscle memory to your non-dominant hand, you just have to keep trying.

There is no rush, just keep drawing.

>>2835734
Don't lose hope anon, the human body adapts very fast.
Look up Alan and Michael Perry, they did miniatures for Warhammer.
One got his dominant hand blown off during an accident with a cannon during historical reenactment and a couple of months later he was already sculpting miniatures to the same quality as before with his non dominant hand

>>2835734

Think of it this way, you're starting off with a clean slate.
Attempt really difficult shit. What's the worst that can happen? Improve your dexterity?

You can do it, OP

I had to do the first exercises in this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgDNDOKnArk)) hours a day for months to get my dexterity where I wanted it to be, but I bet they'd work for your non-dominant hand, too. They would probably help you in your day to day life as well. Hopefully you live somewhere where you'll be afforded free money from the government for the rest of your life considering you can't easily work now, which gives you all the time in the world to adapt to your unfortunate condition. You may be in better shape to make it artistically than you might think. Don't give up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYHALC0SHMc

>>2836130
>>2835776

>>2835734

Technique only takes you so far anyways. Your knowledge is still there, your non-dominant hand just needs to catch up to it which can take a while.

If you don't give up and focus on excercises to relearn your muscle memory, you can single-handedly get back to where you were before. It'll be all right (or left. You didn't specify)

This is why they say you should learn to draw with the entire arm. You should technically still be able to draw by mounting a pen to a prosthetic or whatever and using a large canvas.

>>2835734
Man some people learned to use their feet to draw and they're pretty good at it, you should be fine withing a month as long as you keep at it

Also post pics of your hand

>>2835734
W-what were you doing that caused your entire hand to come off?

F for anon's poor hand

>>2835734
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L-W4HB7uu8

>>2835734
You don't have to start over. it's not like you lost your memories on the fundies. You just have to retrain your other arm to be responsive and coordinate it correctly and you'll be drawing again in no time. just focus on training your muscles.

>>2835734
I have nightmares about this. Nightmares that I grind every night for years and years and when I finally make it, I'd tear or break my hand off because of a car crash or something and then I'd just kill myself at that point. But neither have come true, the making or breaking that is, so I just go on trying again.

Don't give up, anon. Do what you need to do to create. It's never too late.

Requesting a pic of the stump with timestamp

OP DELIVERS OR SAGE

Just drew this with my non dominant hand out of curiosity.
I was practiced about 10 min per day for maybe a month. It was a few months ago. Probably I should continue to find out how good I can use my left hand.

>>2835734
Just take a pencil\stylus and practice faggot. As others said you didn't lost your memory and experience which is 100x more valuable. You'll have to get dexterity with you other hand anyway.
I'd try to get ambidextrous in such situation.

>>2838665
dont use your second hand for drawing if you can without. becoming ambidexterous will gimp your art capacity as there's connections which are made, which reduce creative thinking

>>2838673
Different anon here. What about training one's non-dominant hand for writing? Would that in anyway impede the dominant hand's abilities?

>>2838673
yeah, that really gimped Da Vinci

You lost the entire hand or is it temporary?

Anyways sorry about that, I can't imagine how much it would suck to lose your drawing hand, but I've seen people get good at drawing with their non dominant hand faster than you think, try very hard and you will get to the level you had before, best of luck to you!

>>2835734
That sucks more than anything in the world, man. I'm really sorry that that happened.

However, as far as art goes, I don't think you should fret too much. I hear that if you still understand the principles and techniques you already know, it's more learning mechanical use of a different arm than having to gain back skill. It'll be tough, I don't doubt, but don't be discouraged and don't think that you'll have to re-learn everything you already know.

Wow, sorry to hear that OP.

But dw, your ability to draw resides in your brain, not in your hands.

>>2838673
As I know some naturally ambidextrous kids have some problems with things like math, logic or languages but I didn't heard that learning ambidextery in mid age can affect something. Many comments on one related article say training the other hand didn't give mental problems or advantages.

>>2838759
>tfw you get your skull impaled with a metal rod in an accident and lose all your art gains when it heals

>>2835734
People aren't born right or left handed, it's just what they used growing up. You can train up your other hand with practise.

>>2835734
All your fundamentals, knowledge, know-how and experience, vision, critical eye, inspiration, passion and influences remain intact and you're gonna give up because your motoric skill got a hard reset?
You still have your left hand and two feet in case something goes wrong, motoric ability is probably the easiest thing to train as an artist.

Good luck, whatever choice you make.