28 Jun 18:15
--I wouldn't say it's bad.
Shout Box archive
28 Jun 16:41
--But the focus is on draftmanship which lets me detatch it from most of that stuff anyhow
28 Jun 16:41
--I also want to use it as a forum for debate, and discourse. Not the usual, anything goes in art sort of thing
28 Jun 16:40
--Yeah that is a lot of what i want to talk about. How learning art is probably more about reinventing yourself and challenging and actually changing your approach than it is the practice itself
28 Jun 16:36
--"The great irony is that of all the things that an artist or designer needs to learn, the ability to objectively self-criticize their own work is probably the most important, and yet up till now that’s the one thing I’ve NEVER seen a tutorial in either a magazine, video or book format teach. " - From a youtube comment
28 Jun 16:36
--Now that I re-listen to scott's video and read the comments, there is one comment that caught my attention:
28 Jun 16:25
--"Group" part is something I have been trying to cultivate for quite some time now that scott's speaks about
28 Jun 16:20
--https://youtu.be/ZsfSrLMv7J0 - Developing Your Critical Eye by Scott Robertson. Really interesting and helpful insights
28 Jun 15:51
--WTF is a concept art site doing recommended this to anyone? There are no fundamentals here, just copying a "manga style".
28 Jun 15:48
--The spectral form of Feng Zhou just whispered "high school art" in my ear. XD
28 Jun 15:38
--Yeah, these kinds of books frustrated me as a child. You don't learn your fundamentals from the 1-2-3 drawing approach.
28 Jun 14:43
--@OtherMuzz Who is Christopher Hart, and why do you not like his books? Is he a misleading resource?
28 Jun 14:07
--Bluefley talked about how working at a studio had some advantages for him, and one of them was that conforming to the studio's schedule kept him from doing dumb shit like this, LOL. I'm gonna try to be my own studio