Dominicque's Sketchbook

[Dominicque]

The cake is always as good as the base cake mix.

I'm not quite getting your flow. Is this a reference analogy?

It mean that you can do cake(art) anyways you want but if you leak a proper cake(art process) recipe it gonna be much harder.That why respecting the fundamental practice is important. If you want to make beautiful cake that cool but it doens't mean it well bake. Which is to say beauty doesn't win by itself a uncook cake is still uncook no matter the amount of glitter and icing on top.

Fundamental over imagination specially in the early years of a an artistic journey is important it not to say you must discard imagination just have a greater appreciation from observation and take the time to develop a well form artistic process that work to your advantage. It probably better to draw 10 drawing with intention with a recap at the end and a critic to decide what you want to do next than 20 draw just because you feel you have to express it just to throw it into the pile in your drawer desk with no leasson being receive. There is value in inspiration and drawing for yourself. Let not be fool by what i said but there a line that must be drawn to try to pick what give meaning to your work.

The problem i see right now is that you believe you should be focusing on anatomy not character do you want to move away from copying other artist or not?You seem to like drawing character the most so it only natural that i suggest moving into more anatomy study.The problem is i am not sure you understand how to do a study it something i have no seen or little of.

Remember if this kill it for you take some and leave some we don't have all the same art goal this is just to give an other perspective because if we don't take any other perspective than were own why be on a forum at all... for the praise i guess... but for that i argue there better space than a forum where i think the mentality is growth.

It's the fact that I was one of those people that was worried about being accurate so much, their only significant artistic output for years was studies and just that. I've posted some earlier. But, it makes me much too goal focused, when I need to evolve my mind-set to be more 'progress' motivated, because I'm too busy thinking of all the anatomy and perspective and colour theory, etc I need to know, before I even draw what I want that it makes me hate drawing and I don't want that. So, along side studies, I'm now making a concerned effort to just draw the things I want (with the help of references and artists I admire as influence). I'm not discounting academic art study of course, that's how you improve and I want to be a great artist. However, I also need to learn how to draw for pleasure and not be afraid of posting 'unpolished' things.

I'm trying to do my studies that align and can be directly applied to a picture I'm working on, rather than just random images. I hope the information will stick better that way.