01-27-2016, 03:54 AM
That still life looks awesome man, has Daarkan gotten back to you yet about the first one? :) It looks like a good exercise.
What do you consider to be the relative importance of observational and constructive drawing? I've noticed that there seem to be to main approaches to drawing. You can observe everything carefully, trying to nail the angles, proportions, values etc. that you see. As in still life drawing and painting. Or you can construct things using your knowledge of perspective, basic forms, and the workings of light and surface texture etc., being informed by what you observed in nature. This is how you invent imagined stuff. If I understand correctly, LOL.
Obviously they are tied up with each other, because you need to study things in the world to understand how to construct stuff. But how much time do you think should be spent studying one or the other?
What do you consider to be the relative importance of observational and constructive drawing? I've noticed that there seem to be to main approaches to drawing. You can observe everything carefully, trying to nail the angles, proportions, values etc. that you see. As in still life drawing and painting. Or you can construct things using your knowledge of perspective, basic forms, and the workings of light and surface texture etc., being informed by what you observed in nature. This is how you invent imagined stuff. If I understand correctly, LOL.
Obviously they are tied up with each other, because you need to study things in the world to understand how to construct stuff. But how much time do you think should be spent studying one or the other?
"Drawing is a skill like hammering a nail. You might not be great at it yet, but there is nothing stopping you from gettin' down and hammering away." -Irshad Karim
Sketchbook!
Sketchbook!