01-23-2014, 03:52 AM
But if your anatomical knowledge is passive, you could be a great art critic and notice tiny mistakes or maybe teach anatomy, but you still wouldn't be able to draw that anatomy, because you don't have practice. For example, you could learn enough anatomy for, say, average level of character design (so no detailed muscle knowledge but rather a simplified skeleton and large muscle groups and how they behave) in like three weeks. You simply watch, learn, remember, like with any other subject. But in order to lay that knowledge on paper, you need practice. There's far more practice in the sense of application when it comes to developing art skills than theory.
Also, I think this could be an interesting point - when drawing from a reference, why does a beginner make horrible mistakes in shapes, sizes, ratios, value? He has it right there, he doesn't need to visualize anything, just to get your hand interpret what he sees. I am not talking about line quality or finesse of strokes. His eye differentiates probably the same amount of values as that of Artgerm or some other artist. He sees things correctly, they aren't elongated or have incorrect ratios when he looks at them.
And a person with 5y of practice is still making mistakes and a person with 10y of practice is still making mistakes, but less than the person with 5y of practice.
I wouldn't be able to replicate his line with my hand even if he would explain it to me and gave me a lecture about that singe line and it's width at every point etc. and I would analyze it for ten hours and drew that line a thousand times within that ten hours (I might exaggerate a bit to make a point).
Also, I think this could be an interesting point - when drawing from a reference, why does a beginner make horrible mistakes in shapes, sizes, ratios, value? He has it right there, he doesn't need to visualize anything, just to get your hand interpret what he sees. I am not talking about line quality or finesse of strokes. His eye differentiates probably the same amount of values as that of Artgerm or some other artist. He sees things correctly, they aren't elongated or have incorrect ratios when he looks at them.
And a person with 5y of practice is still making mistakes and a person with 10y of practice is still making mistakes, but less than the person with 5y of practice.
Quote:And what you're talking about is not that this person has greater control over his lines but that he has a stronger sense of design.No, I am not talking about design. I know what you mean, that he makes better line quality decisions and stuff like that. I am talking about pure physical control. The same kind of control a juggler has and you and I don't, because he juggles all the time. And even if we are talking about line quality, calligraphy etc. it's again a product of years of practice of movements.
I wouldn't be able to replicate his line with my hand even if he would explain it to me and gave me a lecture about that singe line and it's width at every point etc. and I would analyze it for ten hours and drew that line a thousand times within that ten hours (I might exaggerate a bit to make a point).