It's always enjoyable to draw the easy things - it's fun when everything goes well and the drawing flows smoothly. It's only natural to avoid difficult things. But unfortunately, avoiding them isn't going to make them any easier! It's a classic feature of any first-year drawing class (especially once they've done enough to realize which bits are hardest) - lots of focus on the torso but the hands and feet either fade out, or fall off the edge of the paper.
The best time to practice drawing hands and feet is outside of class, when you're not using an expensive figure drawing model. Draw the feet and hands of friends and family watching television or reading. Do consider the whole figure and relate the feet and hands to the rest of the body, considering proportion.
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Great advice!!! And I’ve found that as you learn the internal structure — at least to a degree — of the “tricky bits” (love that phrase), the easier it is to draw them. I’ve also found the hands and feet of older people to be especially wonderful to draw and practice on….they’re just so visually interesting!
That’s a great idea about older hands – I think that’s generally true in many other ways too – the faces and bodies of older people express their personality and experiences, and have much more surface detail that gives you something to work with as an artist.