08-01-2015, 02:55 AM
Zearthus, as I said - just do what you feel will make you get the most out of the exercise. Everyone learn different and has a different focus, so there will never be one rule set that’s perfect for everyone.
As for your question: I’ve always been doing composition studies on and off, mostly copying and analyzing art I like and reading up on it. Though for this sketchbook I am trying to not analyze as much but do my own compositions - either by framing/cropping part of existing landscape, or by arranging objects myself (which I think was the author’s original intent), because these are things I’ve not done as often so far. I feel like I’ve got a certain feeling for compositions using a viewfinder because I’m taking photographs since decades (or so :P), but so far that doesn’t really carry over into drawing from observation, because you can’t just hit the release, but more things like lineweight, simplification, limitations through technique (i.e. pen+marker) come into play. Of course I also try to put the theoretical knowledge I’ve read up on over the last years to use while doing that. If I feel like I’m getting stuck, or running short on time, I do master copies but for me, I don’t want this to be the main point of the exercise (since I’m doing that anyway at other times). Does that answer your question?
meat, agree on using shapes and light/darks, as it's a very important composition tool (maybe even THE most important tool). still need to find a new grey marker T_T
As for your question: I’ve always been doing composition studies on and off, mostly copying and analyzing art I like and reading up on it. Though for this sketchbook I am trying to not analyze as much but do my own compositions - either by framing/cropping part of existing landscape, or by arranging objects myself (which I think was the author’s original intent), because these are things I’ve not done as often so far. I feel like I’ve got a certain feeling for compositions using a viewfinder because I’m taking photographs since decades (or so :P), but so far that doesn’t really carry over into drawing from observation, because you can’t just hit the release, but more things like lineweight, simplification, limitations through technique (i.e. pen+marker) come into play. Of course I also try to put the theoretical knowledge I’ve read up on over the last years to use while doing that. If I feel like I’m getting stuck, or running short on time, I do master copies but for me, I don’t want this to be the main point of the exercise (since I’m doing that anyway at other times). Does that answer your question?
meat, agree on using shapes and light/darks, as it's a very important composition tool (maybe even THE most important tool). still need to find a new grey marker T_T