"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 app is an absolute dream for referencing, especially for artist like me who like to do dynamic hand gestures and interesting lighting. The only minor negative i’ve had is that sometimes the controls for moving around the objects can be finicky, especially if i’m trying to place multiple objects in one scene. However I do still think that this is definitely one of the best free tools for artists on the app store!!
Wonderful app!
I was introduced this app by my partner and have used it for just about every drawing since then. I haven’t seen anything even come close to the level of customization this app has, definitely my all time favorite reference tool!
My only complaint would be with posing, I had an issue today manipulating a skull on top of the mannequin head where I couldn’t anchor the skull down to be center aligned. This is really a small issue in the grand scheme of things and it definitely wont revoke any points from my rating though!
Holding hands
This is my go to reference for hands. The only ask I have is for option for both hands in a pose.
Amazing!!
Love it!! Helps tremendously!!
Perfectly as advertised
It’s a great tool. There’s a little bit of a learning curve (or maybe I’m just dumb, lol), but it’s even more useful than I imagined it would be when I heard about it.
Love this app I use it to teach!!!
Love everything about it. Only thing I would change is maybe the planar heads. And have complete models like White models, Black Models, Asian models etc. Everyone has different features but their are some common traits amongst various, racial/ ethnic groups. Don’t. Be afraid to show it. The world is Chromatic embrace it!
Really nice on the go
It’s a great app that you can take anywhere to draw, I have used it to practice hands when I’m at the airport. But I think it’s a bit ridiculous to have to pay for the app, and then pay for different packs.
Helpful? Absolutely!!
This is one of the most useful apps EVER!!! Thanks! My only request would be for the addition of models for children. Not every illustration features only adults, and options for drawing children would be extremely useful.
Great tool!
Works as expected and can be super helpful at times; Minus one star since for the in-app purchases on top of the app itself, but it doesn’t bug me too much.
Please allow us to import our own models
A solid base for an app! Though, the actual reference models don’t have a huge amount of of variety or mobility. Please let us upload our own 3d model assets or add more in the future! It would work really well with those full body pose apps that let you export a polygon mesh