What Is & Isn't A Fundamental.

[Brian Hermelijn]

Here if the thing Hermi, you are one of the people I am directly talking about it. You are studying in a negative feedback loop where you are changing how you draw, not really improving. While the first sheet of gestures are bad and you made some progress, the gestures in 2016 are no better than the ones in 2014, even if you think they are. In fact in many ways the 2014 gestures are far superior as there was at least an attempt to draw in perspective and the lines were more confident.

There is a very specific realisation that you are yet to have, and unless you break out of this paradigm you are working in, and focus on fundamentals not activities, you will never understand. You are pretty much only doing gesture drawing, and spending a shockingly short time doing each one.

I think you are currently going through some severe sunk cost fallacy trying to justify the last year where you made close to no meaningful progress.

You absolutely should not misinterpret Amit's and Username's words to justify lazy activities. Me attacking gesture drawing isn't me throwing the entire practice out either, I actually do gesture drawing for coming up with poses, and in the first steps of a photo copy. I am attacking people using it as a crutch instead of actually drawing what they see, and learning the reality of things.

Which is why I stated, I didn't delve into figure construction (in my last post if you have noticed) I just did gesture drawing and learning about the rhythm/feeling the pose, since that was my main interest up to this point for delving drawing the figure, instead of going into the more analytical part of things such construction of the figure, anatomy etc.

Now my interest is changing towards learning how the figure is actually constructed and not focusing solely on the rhythm/gesture. Which is why I made the other point, you have to put yourself in the shoes of the peoples doing the said ways you mentioned. And why they only did this and not follow the logical steps you suggested. Which is the reason I also said, a student is more prone to follow ones advice if you let them experiment and fail on their own.