What Is & Isn't A Fundamental.

[OtherMuzz]

Not sure where i implied that there is only one way to learn. There isn't, and i would never prescribe a single superior curriculum because of it. But we can most certainly tell people what simply does not work.

We can say definitively that drawing faces in profile and front 10,000 times will not give you the skill to draw a head in perspective.

There is a bias I love to think about called survivor bias. If you study the victors that survived out of something, you are getting a biased sample. We can look at all the pros and go, these are the things they are doing to get good, but it is way more useful to look at what beginners are doing and not progressing, and cross reference.

We know that if you don't force yourself to draw correct form it's never going to happen.

But see this is what really annoys me. As soon as anyone even attempts to think skeptically about illustration techniques, out comes the special snowflake defence, of "it didn't work for you, but it might work for others". This isn't useful, this is about debugging issues and easing the pain as much as possible in an ideal situation. So lets try and not derail the discussion please.