04-25-2017, 08:00 AM
I feel like those excercises will benefit you tremendously.
I always limited my drawabox excercices to 30-40 mins a day within the periods I did them, cause an imaginary Amit and John Silva kept telling me it was more efficient to work on finished imaginative pieces. I Also heared it in Amundsen interview and Anthony Jones' learning method is also to do characters from imagination at least after every 20 minutes of studies.Otherwise, he says, you don't know if you improve or not. Dan Warren said art was like sport, you must excercise all groups of muscle, do color, values,composition etc. all the time or you lose the skill.
But dammit. Maybe some kind of people need to really grasp those fundamentals first. Focus on one thing untill it the brain can almost do it unconsciously. Like probably me and you. Maybe a month or so of just that won't harm us. Not sure though. What do you think? And, by the way most of those boxes are made from imagination/memory by using consruction methods, so you can't really be accused of too much copying.
Have you tried doing box rotatables? I take a real box these days and rotate it in imagination and then check the drawing with a real box, doing just 3-5 in the morning.
I always limited my drawabox excercices to 30-40 mins a day within the periods I did them, cause an imaginary Amit and John Silva kept telling me it was more efficient to work on finished imaginative pieces. I Also heared it in Amundsen interview and Anthony Jones' learning method is also to do characters from imagination at least after every 20 minutes of studies.Otherwise, he says, you don't know if you improve or not. Dan Warren said art was like sport, you must excercise all groups of muscle, do color, values,composition etc. all the time or you lose the skill.
But dammit. Maybe some kind of people need to really grasp those fundamentals first. Focus on one thing untill it the brain can almost do it unconsciously. Like probably me and you. Maybe a month or so of just that won't harm us. Not sure though. What do you think? And, by the way most of those boxes are made from imagination/memory by using consruction methods, so you can't really be accused of too much copying.
Have you tried doing box rotatables? I take a real box these days and rotate it in imagination and then check the drawing with a real box, doing just 3-5 in the morning.