Animate a drawing on your hand. Draw an X on your palm with a permanent marker and amaze your audience as that same X crawls across your hand as if it were alive. Bring your ink to life with Hand Drawn by Nick Popa.

Here’s what happens:

The performer pulls a permanent marker from their pocket. They draw a dot, an X, or even a heart on the palm of their hand. The drawing then slowly and visibly crawls across the performer’s palm. There is no cover-up and no strange or suspicious movements. The performer then picks the drawing off their hand and transfers it to their arm or wrist. The audience can even check to see if the ink is actually being drawn onto the performer’s skin.

This incredible effect happens without concealment, without special chemicals, and without complicated sleight of hand. The Hand Drawn gimmick comes with three standard shapes that you can animate on your hand. Nick even teaches you a bonus routine to combine Hand Drawn with the popular Double Cross Gimmick, so that after the drawing has been animated on your hand, you can make it vanish and have it appear on your spectator’s palm. Once you’ve completed the one-time setup, you can perform Hand Drawn whenever you want.