05-29-2016, 11:52 AM
I feel the approach amit presented is a much healthier/balanced one, because you need to have empathy and put yourself in the shoes of the student, and understand where they are coming from.
I think I can share my own experience, since I am one of those that first started with gesture drawing. The way I started doing gestures is, trying to replicate what other peoples I follow did. Steve Huston, Karl Gnass, Kevin Chen, Hampton, Villpu, Bridgman, Reiq, Mattesi. But eventually I started noticing commonalities in all of their gestures which is understanding of form and rhythm.
When I came to that realization, I started practicing form, not intensively as sites like drawabox suggest, but also in the part of seeing the form on the body, seeing the rhythm, and then put lines on paper.
Would I have saved time if I just started with the tried and true system? Of course. But at the same time, I would rather fail at something, because it gives me a better data on what I did wrong, and why the other system is better.
A comparison road on gestures I did in the beginning and now. I didn't delve too deeply with figure construction until now, since there has been a lot of bumps on the road such as not knowing why I was practicing. And also stopped with learning to draw the figure around last month of 2015, and came back to it in May 2016.
Of course there is a lot of room for more improvement, but the point is, I learned from my failure. I learned by dissecting in my own, before I started with the form/proportion way as you suggested.
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So for me it's about failing, noting down why the approach didn't work, and why the other is better to solve a certain problem.
I think I can share my own experience, since I am one of those that first started with gesture drawing. The way I started doing gestures is, trying to replicate what other peoples I follow did. Steve Huston, Karl Gnass, Kevin Chen, Hampton, Villpu, Bridgman, Reiq, Mattesi. But eventually I started noticing commonalities in all of their gestures which is understanding of form and rhythm.
When I came to that realization, I started practicing form, not intensively as sites like drawabox suggest, but also in the part of seeing the form on the body, seeing the rhythm, and then put lines on paper.
Would I have saved time if I just started with the tried and true system? Of course. But at the same time, I would rather fail at something, because it gives me a better data on what I did wrong, and why the other system is better.
A comparison road on gestures I did in the beginning and now. I didn't delve too deeply with figure construction until now, since there has been a lot of bumps on the road such as not knowing why I was practicing. And also stopped with learning to draw the figure around last month of 2015, and came back to it in May 2016.
Of course there is a lot of room for more improvement, but the point is, I learned from my failure. I learned by dissecting in my own, before I started with the form/proportion way as you suggested.
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So for me it's about failing, noting down why the approach didn't work, and why the other is better to solve a certain problem.
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