10-17-2013, 01:48 PM
Haven't drawn as much in the past couple days...I've been trying to reconstruct a curriculum for myself, as I realize I've been spending way too much time finding/watching art-related videos/websites and not enough actual drawing. Resources help, but it's not the only thing I should be doing.
I should also mention I'm trying to learn a language on the side...Certainly makes things a lot tougher to plan out. :[
Here are my current daily assignments:
- Watching Erik Olson's perspective series on New Masters Academy, taking notes and repeating what he's doing for myself at a later time so that I fully grasp the material. I wanted a full, extensive series of videos on perspective that also kind of holds the hands of the student, and this seems to be it, as he carefully explains what he's doing and goes over what he did at the end just to make sure it sticks. Perspective is a core fundamental that I don't think I should pass off and try to get away with by "kind of" knowing how to do it. That said, I want to blitz through these videos as soon as possible and start practicing what he's teaching on my own. There's a lot of videos though..
Also, if there's any point at which he gets too technical and I can't figure it out, I have a backup plan. Not quite as extensive, but should be helpful nonetheless.
- Warmups: drawing lines/arcs/waves/ellipsis, drawing boxes/cylinders from real-life and from the imagination. I should start taking the latter more seriously. Perhaps drawing objects from real-life and converting them to boxes/cylinders.
- 50/100 gesture drawings (preferably 100) for up to 65 seconds or more. What I want to try to do soon is taking perhaps 1 or 2 of the best gesture drawings I made, then building everything I can on top of that (cylinders/boxes for the body parts, drawing in the anatomy, and finish with the contour/cleaning up). This will easily take a lot of time to do at first, but should gradually get faster. After that, I plan on doing the same figure from the imagination and working on top of it. Should help a ton in trying to remember what I just learned.
By the way, I'm trying to switch to Hampton's method of drawing the figure. Nothing wrong with Proko, I just think I'll get more mileage long-term by trying to go with Hampton. His gestures are confusing me though. When he (or other instructors) say they're not drawing the contour, but draw curves at the edges of the figure, I really don't know how to interpret that. Maybe he's not drawing -the- contour of the figure, but he's definitely drawing -a- contour. That and I feel like he adds certain details at the gesture stage (knees, elbows) that should be done in another step. It's throwing me off to do it that way anyway..
I should also mention I'm trying to learn a language on the side...Certainly makes things a lot tougher to plan out. :[
Here are my current daily assignments:
- Watching Erik Olson's perspective series on New Masters Academy, taking notes and repeating what he's doing for myself at a later time so that I fully grasp the material. I wanted a full, extensive series of videos on perspective that also kind of holds the hands of the student, and this seems to be it, as he carefully explains what he's doing and goes over what he did at the end just to make sure it sticks. Perspective is a core fundamental that I don't think I should pass off and try to get away with by "kind of" knowing how to do it. That said, I want to blitz through these videos as soon as possible and start practicing what he's teaching on my own. There's a lot of videos though..
Also, if there's any point at which he gets too technical and I can't figure it out, I have a backup plan. Not quite as extensive, but should be helpful nonetheless.
- Warmups: drawing lines/arcs/waves/ellipsis, drawing boxes/cylinders from real-life and from the imagination. I should start taking the latter more seriously. Perhaps drawing objects from real-life and converting them to boxes/cylinders.
- 50/100 gesture drawings (preferably 100) for up to 65 seconds or more. What I want to try to do soon is taking perhaps 1 or 2 of the best gesture drawings I made, then building everything I can on top of that (cylinders/boxes for the body parts, drawing in the anatomy, and finish with the contour/cleaning up). This will easily take a lot of time to do at first, but should gradually get faster. After that, I plan on doing the same figure from the imagination and working on top of it. Should help a ton in trying to remember what I just learned.
By the way, I'm trying to switch to Hampton's method of drawing the figure. Nothing wrong with Proko, I just think I'll get more mileage long-term by trying to go with Hampton. His gestures are confusing me though. When he (or other instructors) say they're not drawing the contour, but draw curves at the edges of the figure, I really don't know how to interpret that. Maybe he's not drawing -the- contour of the figure, but he's definitely drawing -a- contour. That and I feel like he adds certain details at the gesture stage (knees, elbows) that should be done in another step. It's throwing me off to do it that way anyway..