Peter's Sketchbook

[Peter]

There so much stuff to read in here so i am sorry if what i am gonna say might have been said before this message.I think it great that you have an academic approach but i feel like it also play against you in term of how rigid the academic approach tend to try to impose itself as the go to method it important in my opinion to diversify the source of material you study.


If i can give you an advise it would be to do more gesture drawing and try to approach your drawing by working all around the piece to maintain the proportion if you work to much on one thing you will generally lose the proportion in relation to the rest.What i think happen is that you take so much time measuring that when a line is done it become hard for you to change anything.If you want to become free you need to work lightly and quickly by doing this you leave space for change.There will always come a time that your satisfied it at that moment that you can start to press harder to bring out the line.Don't be afraid to be messy it the stage where you figure sh1t measure and check angle and proportion those kind of thing.

Lastly i hope that your using those study and applying them to your own personal project if your not doing this already because if you don't you are not testing if your really understand what your studying.It one thing to study it an other to apply what was learned.By having a good balance between your own personal project and study you can better inform yourself on what next is necessary to study.

I hope this was helpful.

 
Hey Darktiste, no problem! I mainly use my sketchbooks to keep track of my progress aswell as my thoughts (hence why I write so much haha) so apologies if I go off on a tangent.

Thankis for your suggestions :) I've been meaning to get back into gesture drawing since as you said it's something that I struggle with. Atm I've been trying to stick to one thing at a time rather than multiple things like I normally would. Are you suggesting to not measure as much as I am currently (juding measurements more by eye?) or working quicker than I am currently, or just doing lots of gesture drawings of varying times? Ive mainly been trying to work on my proportions the past few weeks since they were all over the place most of the time.

I've actually just started geting back into personal work (trying to rework an old idea I had) since I'm terrible for just studying constantly and like you daid not applying it to what I want to do. It's something that I'm currently trying to work on, hopefully actually finishing this personal piece that I'm working on right now will give me to push I need.