AlfonsoX SKETCHBOOK

[AlfonsoX]

    Art Course
Become an amazing artist on 5 easy steps ;p

1 Accuracy: Observe and replicate.
Bargue, Image Copy, Still Life, Self Portrait, Life drawing, Plein Air.

2 Visualization: Reconstruct and represent. On the canvas your brush is gliding through space.
Draw a box / Dynamic Sketching (construction, form, lineweight, texture, highlights)

3 Perspective: Technical draw, man made, hard surface, symmetry.
Scott Robertson: Basic Drawing, H2D Book, Cars, Planes, Hovercraft.
Feng Zhu: Sketching Environments 

4 Render:  Environment acting on surface material through photons.
Scott Robertson: Matte Surfaces -> Cube, Cylinder, Sphere, Organics.
H2R Book -> Materials (Metal, Skin, Wood, Rubber, Leather, Silk, Glass)
Lighting variations ->(Key, Overcast, sunset, sunshine, artificial, interior, SHADOWS) 

5 Sexyness: Use the language from above to convey emotion on an image through tasteful design of...
.STORY  
.Composition
.Lighting
.Color
.Brushwork (edges, texture)
.Anatomy, Gesture and Expression
.DESIGN and Stylization

Take with grain of salt.
This is just my distillation of matter into atoms.
Each step build on the previous ones but everything is interrelated. Can jump around for sanity sake.
My idea is to label everything a paint from now on with this labels: Accuracy, Visualization, Perspective, Render, Sex.