11-17-2020, 10:45 AM
I applaud you for doing this, I'm sure it's not easy, and the first step toward making improvements is often swallowing your pride. You've heard from me a couple times already, and I don't know if you want to hear it again but: fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals.
I don't think I can really rate you on the chart, just because I don't think it really makes sense to do so. All of the things mentioned on there are fundamentals, and all kind of exist together in my opinion. For example, proportion and placement is really important. But gesture, anatomy and form all are contributing factors to how you might draw something accurately. However, I have encountered nobody who has effectively studied gesture and anatomy without a good grasp of accurate placement. (how can you say that you are studying correct anatomy if you draw it the wrong size and shape?). Likewise, form construction is tied to perspective, value to color, and so on.
Though it's true that you may not need some skills as much as others, depending on what you are doing, for any artistic profession that you wish to go into, you need to advance all of these fundamentals. I would suggest starting with proportion and placement (in other words, drawing accuracy), as it seems that many things rely on that. And to be fair, it looks like you have made some improvements there, as some of your posts from the past few months are actually pretty accurate just proportion-wise, at least from what I can see of the ones with reference. However, some drawings appear to be mirrored perfectly, or use some other photoshop techniques, and all have uniform outline, leaving no indication of how you arrived at the result. So it's hard to say whether you've gone about your work in a way which actually leads to improvement of your eye, or not. Not saying you traced stuff, but I really don't know.
I don't think I can really rate you on the chart, just because I don't think it really makes sense to do so. All of the things mentioned on there are fundamentals, and all kind of exist together in my opinion. For example, proportion and placement is really important. But gesture, anatomy and form all are contributing factors to how you might draw something accurately. However, I have encountered nobody who has effectively studied gesture and anatomy without a good grasp of accurate placement. (how can you say that you are studying correct anatomy if you draw it the wrong size and shape?). Likewise, form construction is tied to perspective, value to color, and so on.
Though it's true that you may not need some skills as much as others, depending on what you are doing, for any artistic profession that you wish to go into, you need to advance all of these fundamentals. I would suggest starting with proportion and placement (in other words, drawing accuracy), as it seems that many things rely on that. And to be fair, it looks like you have made some improvements there, as some of your posts from the past few months are actually pretty accurate just proportion-wise, at least from what I can see of the ones with reference. However, some drawings appear to be mirrored perfectly, or use some other photoshop techniques, and all have uniform outline, leaving no indication of how you arrived at the result. So it's hard to say whether you've gone about your work in a way which actually leads to improvement of your eye, or not. Not saying you traced stuff, but I really don't know.