Trying to stay positive with our lord and saviour Bob Ross watching over me — what a frustrating week of drawing. I'm going back to studying Hogarth, I'm not entirely sure how far to take these studies in terms of what's the best use of my time? Spending 2 hours rendering the entire thing or just doing some sketches to get the information into my head, though the drawings look absolutely terrible. If anyone has any advice that would be great.
Below you can see some sketches of my hands in biro, and then some Hogarth studies from most rushed to least rushed though I gave up on all of them, I still got something out of it in terms of proportions. I'm reading his Dynamic Anatomy book and I like how he introduces it in terms of the duality of art and science and how we need a modern (though this book is old) take on figurative art — which I totally agree with. I don't know, I think when I get to this point of frustration I just want to draw from my head and see what appears on the paper.
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Below you can see some sketches of my hands in biro, and then some Hogarth studies from most rushed to least rushed though I gave up on all of them, I still got something out of it in terms of proportions. I'm reading his Dynamic Anatomy book and I like how he introduces it in terms of the duality of art and science and how we need a modern (though this book is old) take on figurative art — which I totally agree with. I don't know, I think when I get to this point of frustration I just want to draw from my head and see what appears on the paper.