09-01-2015, 02:40 PM
Yep just keep at it. Everything in art seems to work from the general to the specific. You first start with the general large things, get those right then move on, getting more specific. I think you can definitely keep focusing on constructing figures as accurately as possible in perspective. If you have that down well, then adding accessories and clothing, is literally like draping things on a mannequin.
Of course more study will need to be done to figure out how clothes fold and drape realistically, and stuff like that to get it to work, but if your figure has volume to start with, then you are off to a good start.
I'm all for going back and studying things again with a caveat. My own perspective is that if I have generally understood in theory what is going on, but things aren't working, I will instead practice and do studies, life drawing, photos, whatever, to put specific mileage into my application of the theory, rather than simply revisit the theory again.
Of course more study will need to be done to figure out how clothes fold and drape realistically, and stuff like that to get it to work, but if your figure has volume to start with, then you are off to a good start.
I'm all for going back and studying things again with a caveat. My own perspective is that if I have generally understood in theory what is going on, but things aren't working, I will instead practice and do studies, life drawing, photos, whatever, to put specific mileage into my application of the theory, rather than simply revisit the theory again.