08-10-2013, 10:20 PM
(08-10-2013, 05:29 AM)JonHop Wrote: Hey good start to your sketchbook. Reading your above post ^^ when you do studies don't mindlessly copy the image, unless of course your goal is to just replicate that image exactly (imo not the most useful way of studying) but think about what goal you are trying to achieve and learn with the study and actively seek to analyse while you work how you can achieve that goal and attempt to achieve it with the study.
Hey JonHop, thanks. Yeah that's what I was thinking. Cuz when I do studies I don't pay attention to everything but only to certain things. Sometimes is really hard to even find a focus much less sticking to one. You know what I mean? Like doing a study a face for example and starting with the idea of making the proportions of the face right but then just focusing on the structure and details on the eyes and spending too much time on that and after a while figuring out that the overall structure of the face is way off and then just leaving it as it is because you feel you wasted too much time on it. I'm kind of thinking making myself a plan like of doing 100 different eyes and then after that doing 100 different noses and lips and after that doing 100 faces. This would be focused and I'm quite sure it would get some good results but I haven't done it yet so there is a chance it might get boring just doing one thing all over again. That's why I'm asking around to see if anyone has a personal method that was proven useful or even if someone has had a teacher that would recommend a good method. I hope we're not all self-taught here ;)