05-03-2016, 09:42 PM
If you want to learn how another artist did their work, their is nothing better you can do than do a study of it, and then immediately apply your learnings, but in your own unique way to your own unique piece, in other words not just trying to replicate the same shit from memory, but applying the understanding you learned during the study to something of your own.
I refuse to use the word copy here, because copy implies rote reproduction and that shouldn't ever be the aim of any study, master or otherwise. And yeah, if you want to study something whoever they are....go for it, as long as they inspire you and you know what you want to get out of it.
Sergio Toppi is one of my all time favourite artists, if not the favourite, and he was a comic book guy. Ignore the list of long dead people if that's what you want. Study who inspires you.
I also maxed out on study at some points. All work and no play makes Jack a serial axe murderer. But now I love freaking studying when I get the time. Find your own balance, nobody can tell you what the right one is for you.
I refuse to use the word copy here, because copy implies rote reproduction and that shouldn't ever be the aim of any study, master or otherwise. And yeah, if you want to study something whoever they are....go for it, as long as they inspire you and you know what you want to get out of it.
Sergio Toppi is one of my all time favourite artists, if not the favourite, and he was a comic book guy. Ignore the list of long dead people if that's what you want. Study who inspires you.
I also maxed out on study at some points. All work and no play makes Jack a serial axe murderer. But now I love freaking studying when I get the time. Find your own balance, nobody can tell you what the right one is for you.