22 May 07:16
--Core exercises are fine, too \o/
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22 May 07:15
--What I mean with burn myself out is, doing too many exercises at once. For now I will be focusing on the core exercises, and slowly add more.
22 May 07:14
--That's what I did in the past doing the most complex exercises instead of the basic ones (same way with art)
22 May 07:13
--Starting small. Not gonna make it to complex, but slowly add exercises along the way.
22 May 07:05
--I see. @Hermi Nice fitness goals. Might want to add dips, although proper tricep pushups do work the triceps. Lunges are good, too.
22 May 06:45
--If I were going to do this all over again, I would start with Keys to Drawing Kert Dudson.
22 May 06:44
--Well for me at least, I bought the book. Thought it will teach me anything, it didn't. Because I already had the confidence to begin with, and that's what the book teaches I feel. Just confidence.
22 May 06:40
--Has anyone read "Drawing on the right side of the brain"? I hear mixed things. Some say it's great, some say it's fine, and some say it's useless and overthinking art.
22 May 06:34
--But that can be applicable to anything jobs that requires you to sit all day,
22 May 06:32
--Not sure if anyone seen jeff watts talks about the book over Mastery, but this parts speaks about how to keep yourself energized as an artist : https://youtu.be/ZNwhwhkZuus
22 May 04:09
--I think we might be making the concept a bit too complex, instead of simpler terms. But yeah. Gonna go finish up some things for now, talk to you guys later. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
22 May 04:08
--one last thought. Trial and error is like lego. Fundementals are the bricks you have. You work out the coolest stuff to build out of the bricks you have, or you can go out and get more bricks and then build something really cool
22 May 04:07
--What if I draw the form this way, and not that way? What if I make it smaller? What if I make it longer etc etc. You will start figuring what works and what doesn't work in a way.
22 May 04:06
--I also see what you mean lodratio, like asking your self "what if... "
22 May 04:02
--I think trial and error in the form of play certainly has a lot of merit, but it is the worst way to teach yourself fundementals.
22 May 04:02
--those kinds of things can come from a book, or you can come up with them yourself
22 May 04:01
--trial and error can also mean doing sculpting to figure out forms, or thinking about shadows and light instead of symbols
22 May 04:01
--Maybe he isn't developing principles, and just pushing symbols around the same way he always has. I think you're limiting your definition of trial and error to 'approaching things with the same process over and over again until you get them right'
22 May 04:00
--Truth of the matter is that i was doing the wrong thing for a very very long time... and in a lot of ways im just trying to get others to not do the same stupid things.
22 May 03:59
--I also have the same experience with drawing faces, and i took years to learn how to do it because i was too stubborn to realise that i actually didn't understand form properly, and the only way to fix that was careful observation and study.