Handy Art Reference Tool

As an artist looking custom lighting setups for portrait reference on the fly, Handy blew my mind, I use it every time I paint and draw.

By far the best beginner 3D reference software I’ve used yet! The posing is quite easy to figure out and gives you a lot of range for what you can do. The lighting features are also really useful for figuring out planes and such!

Posing is easy and intuitive. So handy!

Hard to beat a app like this. I don’t even need to know 3D, it lets me focus on drawing

Very awesome program. While it doesn’t have a lot of models I really love using this to get quick references for hands and faces. Haven’t encountered any glitches or unpleasant surprises. It turned out to be exactly what I expected it to be + it came with a few animal skulls too that I find very handy to use

Add hairstyles as an extension. Have interval rotation. The interval would be like 10 deg 20 deg etc. this allows more precision when trying to make reference cheat sheets of heads at various angles even when it’s tilted. That way artists can make reference sheets for themselves easily to build muscle memory. Or have option to save multiple angle views at once rather than making so many manually. This would be a huge game changer. Seeing all the angles of my subject head at a quick glance on one sheet amazing for anyone.

Une belle variété de modèles pour des références en dessin comme les mains, pieds, structure du visage! Ce que j’aime bien aussi c’est la possibilité de jouer avec la direction de la lumière pour avoir une bonne idée ou mettre les ombres et lumière sur les différents angle de vue des visages!

I've used other posable anatomy apps before, even some paid, and I use handy over those ones because I find it so much easier to use. The key is that Handy uses sliders to make adjustments, and there's separate sliders for each individual kind of movement. The other app I bought, relies on using your finger or pencil to move it around in 3d space but it's so hard to isolate a bend or a rotation; I never know what I'm doing and the model just clips into itself. I quit using that one out of frustration except when I need a full figure. If the makers of handy made an app for posable full body that's as easy to use as this, I'll definite get it. I love the feature to save scenes.

It’s super hard to find references for each and every pose you might imagine, but this app is a wonderful guide to learning and practicing anatomy. I definitely recommend it!!

If you struggle drawings hands this is a rly great app!