Cardboard-box hands are CrAZy . aRT's new drawing assignment
The beginner tutorial builds palms and fingers from simple shapes before tackling crossed, twisting poses.
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How to DRAW hands with simple shapes (Beginner)
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Things we can learn from the video
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- 0:32Start with a house-shaped palm, curved knuckle guides and a triangle for the thumb base.
- 1:00Use equal palm and middle-finger heights as the tutorial's basic proportion guide.
- 1:24Add volume with segmented finger cylinders and a thumb that pivots like a joystick.
- 2:03Turn the palm into a box for angled views, letting nearer fingers overlap those behind.
- 2:47Use knuckle bumps and foreshortening rings to give individual fingers depth.
- 3:25Combine the geometric shapes in crossed and twisting hand poses.
Hands get a blueprint. CrAZy . aRT's only new upload, "How to DRAW hands with simple shapes (Beginner)", swaps intimidating anatomy for a house-shaped palm, a triangular thumb base and fingers built from cylinders.
The narrator first pretends that memorizing muscles and tendons is the assignment, then erases the detailed sketch. "Because the real secret to drawing hands is treating them like cheap cardboard boxes." From there, the lesson adds depth to the flat outline, uses overlapping fingers to explain side views and finishes with more tangled, expressive poses. The thumb becomes a joystick, a useful little image for a joint that can be awkward to place.
The tutorial has drawn about 3,000 views, a modest start beside the channel's established drawing archive. Its busiest individual upload right now is September's "The secret to drawing torsos without complex guidelines || Jmarron", which credits Jmarron as the artist. The new hand lesson sits close behind in daily views, followed by "Pov: you start drawing without any warm-up".
Across the channel, daily views are above their usual level, while the subscriber count was unchanged over the week. Its roughly 1.3 million weekly views put it in similar territory to Oscar Owen Magic among nearby-sized art and craft channels. Here, the practical assignment is deliberately smaller than that audience: get the palm's basic shape down before worrying about all those fingers.
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The videos drawing views on CrAZy . aRT right now
- Channel
- CrAZy . aRT
- Subscribers
- 1,660,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,347,124
- Videos published this week
- 1
- Video published
- November 12, 2026
- Video views so far
- 3,082
- Views on its first day
- 2,633
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💡 Test your knowledge
Which shape does the new tutorial use to build finger segments?
The tutorial constructs fingers from connected cylinder segments to give them volume.




