Handy Art Reference Tool
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About this app
If you're an artist and ever wanted just quick and easy drawing reference for hands, heads, or even feet* 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!
Check out the video demo:
http://handyarttool.com/
Sign up for the HANDY newsletter for information about new upcoming updates!
http://www.handyarttool.com/newsletter
Follow HANDY on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/handyarttool.bsky.social
Follow HANDY on X
http://twitter.com/HandyArtTool/
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!
Check out the video demo:
http://handyarttool.com/
Sign up for the HANDY newsletter for information about new upcoming updates!
http://www.handyarttool.com/newsletter
Follow HANDY on Bluesky
https://bsky.app/profile/handyarttool.bsky.social
Follow HANDY on X
http://twitter.com/HandyArtTool/
Artists wanting to use decent hand reference on the go, this app is for you!
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Ratings and reviews
4.07K reviews
Sky P
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30 September 2020
I don't usually write reviews, but Handy absolutely earned it. With brand new (free!) features being added such as subsurface scattering, new high-resolution models, and ability to load multiple models in a scene, they've established themselves as one of my essential tools for digital art. I recommend it to anyone who is starting out drawing or rendering and needs that solid anatomical/lighting foundation. Can't wait to see what features they will come out with in the future!
210 people found this review helpful
Natalie Stone
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25 December 2022
It's good, it works as a lighting reference too, though there's microtransactions if you want feet and animal skulls references in this (paid) app, which is unfair in my opinion. You can't change the head models' facial expressions to my knowledge, which limits the usability a bit, I also ended up rotating the figure so that it's tilted and don't know how to fix it. So nice app overall, needs a decent amount of work though.
65 people found this review helpful
Oliver Ripplinger
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9 September 2026
Usually don't really like "art helping" apps because they're always behind insane paywalls and barely have any mechanics, but this is genuinely a good app. they have hand reference with poseable fingers, and like 5 different heads you can rotate, change lighting, like literally anything. very good I highly reccomend
3 people found this review helpful
What's new
Handy users, thank you for your support!
- Fixed an issue with the Animal Skulls displaying as pink due to the updated bundle not downloading automatically.
- Fixed an issue with the Animal Skulls displaying as pink due to the updated bundle not downloading automatically.
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About the developer
BELIEF ENGINE, LLC
support@beliefengine.com
17610 Woodinville Snohomish Rd NE Unit 782
Woodinville, WA 98072-9867
United States
+1 425-240-5514
