Before you start drawing a hand, make sure you pick an interesting gesture. Try to experiment a lot at this point. A well-drawn gesture can communicate more than 100 words.

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Those doodles you drew have now been used to teach Google’s AI how to draw. The resulting program is called Sketch-RNN and, frankly, it draws about as well as a toddler.

“Drawing a hand that looks like a hand remains hard—first surprisingly so, then stubbornly,” he writes. He adds, “most people are bad at what they haven’t spent years learning to do . . .

But that misses the point. Although they offer some hand-holding (more on that in a bit), to make the most of these apps, you’ve still got to learn the fundamentals of drawing or painting, and ...