Joseph's shiny new sketchbook

[darktiste]

It kinda hard to tell what people are trying to achieve when there not much context given to there effort so the natural default advice i seem to give out to people is for any artist to practice accuracy first in my opinion because that how you break the rule as i said previously.

Not that it is the ultimate goal since to me the principle of design is what really differentiate copy machine from artist.

When i talk about using the tool i mean that we should be using the tool in a way that create opportunity to learn more and have more time for other thing specially when we are paid doing commision for example so you can finish what you are doing for them and go back to your own study.Some people use client work as opportunity to study and i am not sure i would call that fair to the client but really if the result is still meeting the client expectation that just a risk the artist take it can go both way.

An other reason i find using tool can be useful is that sometime you are just trying to learn as specific fundamental and it seem like you would get more mileage by focusing on that specfic fundamental.Of course putting all the fundamental together in longer study is also important.

Let say for example you want to draw a cube but the intention is to understand how cast shadow work.The goal isn't to be able to draw cube free hand so tool are just the springboard to get to what your trying to understand.Will you are able to focus your understand jump up but it not necessarly truth with the quality which can be in relation to understand more than one fundamental.

Of course later on you draw the cube freehand and apply what you learn but if it to understand and experiment i think tool allow the artist to get more opportunity to experiment would you agree?