04-26-2016, 09:52 PM
Hey Johnny, thanks for dropping by my SB!
Aw man a bunch of them were just talking trash I think, some people are jealous and haters gonna hate. I think Noah has his weaknesses (as do we all) but we can learn something from everybody. I think what really bothered me was that the commentators implied that anyone who felt they could learn something from that f*cking n00b Noah is below n00b and not even a worthy candidate of sentient life. LMAO At least that was the vibe that came off the discussion. Maybe part of this comes from just getting better and seeing the flaws in people you used to think of as uber art gods.
I felt I learned something from this exercise. It is of course an entirely 2d way to approach drawing, but if you want to get better at seeing proportions and shapes correctly that's what it does. And I know the original idea is from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, LOL. It is a nice confidence boost to draw this weird upside down abstracted thing and then flip it over and realize you got pretty accurate to the original master painting. :P
That's a great idea, actually, I should start doing that! Dynamic Sketching (the main art curriculum I'm following right now) specifies that I will take notes of what I learned after dynamically sketching plants, animals, toasters, tanks or whatever else I'm drawing. The idea is that I'll better retain that information in my visual library (note-taking is proven to improve memory retention). And I am! :-) Fixed that f*cked up head shape, it looks better now.
Quote:Hey man, I think it's a great exercise and approach - don't worry if people talk badly of Noah Bradley, if you can see the logic behind what he's asking you to do then go for it. At any rate he's still much more accomplished as an artist than us, even if the marketing stuff is true, so we can still benefit from his wisdom : )
Aw man a bunch of them were just talking trash I think, some people are jealous and haters gonna hate. I think Noah has his weaknesses (as do we all) but we can learn something from everybody. I think what really bothered me was that the commentators implied that anyone who felt they could learn something from that f*cking n00b Noah is below n00b and not even a worthy candidate of sentient life. LMAO At least that was the vibe that came off the discussion. Maybe part of this comes from just getting better and seeing the flaws in people you used to think of as uber art gods.
I felt I learned something from this exercise. It is of course an entirely 2d way to approach drawing, but if you want to get better at seeing proportions and shapes correctly that's what it does. And I know the original idea is from Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, LOL. It is a nice confidence boost to draw this weird upside down abstracted thing and then flip it over and realize you got pretty accurate to the original master painting. :P
Quote:Maybe you do already but it could be useful to make notes about things you realise or patterns you find when doing these studies, so that it sinks in more thoroughly and can be used with more understanding when you apply it to your observational work. Sometimes you can't think of something to write but when you start writing all these other realisations come up that you wouldn't have seen before. Keep going ^^
That's a great idea, actually, I should start doing that! Dynamic Sketching (the main art curriculum I'm following right now) specifies that I will take notes of what I learned after dynamically sketching plants, animals, toasters, tanks or whatever else I'm drawing. The idea is that I'll better retain that information in my visual library (note-taking is proven to improve memory retention). And I am! :-) Fixed that f*cked up head shape, it looks better now.
"Drawing is a skill like hammering a nail. You might not be great at it yet, but there is nothing stopping you from gettin' down and hammering away." -Irshad Karim
Sketchbook!
Sketchbook!