HANDY- an artist's reference tool, consisting of several rotatable 3D limbs with a variety of poses useful for drawing. Has 3D models of hands, feet, and animal skulls!
"Thanks to this useful app, drawing realistic hands can become a whole lot easier" - ImagineFX
"Pencillers, inkers, and colorists should all give this a look!" - Tony Moore, co-creator of The Walking Dead
If you're an artist and ever wanted just quick and easy drawing reference for hands, heads, or even feet (IAP) without having to awkwardly pose your limbs in front of a mirror, this app is for you!
HANDY® is an artist's reference tool, consisting of several rotatable 3D limbs with a variety of poses useful for drawing. You can also customize and edit your own poses for hands, feet, and skulls.
Fully adjustable 3-point lighting means you can get easy lighting reference when using any of the 10+ included 3D head busts. Handy if you’re painting and need to know what shadows the head casts from a certain angle!
Also available is the Animal Skulls pack. With over 10 different animal species, it's great for anatomical reference or creature design inspiration.
[Foot rigs and Animal Skull pack require additional purchase]
NEW in Handy v5: Edit the materials of models! Selectively turn off their textures, adjust their specularity, or tint them a certain color.
Perfect for comic book artists, painters, or just casual sketchers!
Featured in ImagineFX's Top 10 Must-Have Apps!
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This is THE source. Anatomy of Sculptures by Uldis Zarins is an exclusive. 3D diagrams of the entire human body. I’m the 3d artist making a foray into anatomy drawing. I can’t tell you how far ahead his approach is. He stresses asymmetry, which is critical for Human drawing.Please include an Asaro head. This will be the source I’ll recommend to my fellow students.
Amazing! Can’t wait for more updates
_corpus_christy_
It is so difficult to find animal skull references from different angles, especially a sheep skull! Can’t wait for more props and hopefully some full body 3D models you can manipulate for when I need to draw a person in a unique pose.
I’ve used this app for a long time
kaytlynnrose
I love this app. It has helped me with my sketches but one thing I wish it would do… adjust facial expressions. That would be the icing on the almost perfect app.
Love it for years
lus-tu-crus!?
I bought the all the extra pack and use it frequently for light exposure on shape, face and more!BUT! The last update may have a bug because my app don’t open anymorePlease look into it!
Developer Response
Hello! Thanks for reporting the issue.There was some sort of strange bug present in that previous update that was causing Handy to crash on launch for a lot of users. We've reverted Handy back to a stable version while we try and figure out what was causing it. Sorry very much about the trouble 😩, please update to the newest version and it should work as expected again. 🙏
HANDY users, thank you very much for your patience and supportive understanding. We’re ready to finally try applying our previous update once again.
If you encounter any issues or problems, PLEASE do not hesitate to reach out to us at contact@handyarttool.com !
- Apple iCloud integration is completely re-written from the ground up, and (hopefully) should not produce any crashing or significant delays when opening Handy.
- Fixing issues where links could no longer be opened in iOS18 or later
- Fixing an issue where the rotation UI would not be aligned correctly on certain devices with skinnier aspect ratios.
- Now supports swipe from left-edge Back shortcut gestures in the menus
- Fix for not being able to individually adjust the Jaw sliders for loaded skulls
Version 5.2
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