11-28-2014, 01:34 PM
One more cent on studying from life and how that's useful:
Let's say with the same end goal of making a copy drawing similar to what you're looking at, how the process of doing that from Life and from Photo begets different walks and collections of fruits of knowledge.
My guess is Photo you can measure and manipulate all you want to on a screen with ruler or Photoshop rather quickly, but Life you can't really do that. You hold up a ruler to that T-Rex skeleton towering over you, then put the ruler down on your paper, but there's a lot of thinking, deciding, and thinking again before you can translate that measurement into something that helps your drawing achieve that feel you want. You'll be forced to think a LOT of why, why, why when studying from Life. And in that slow, sometimes frustrating, mind-churning process, you'll about what you're drawing and how to translate that whole thing into a representative 2D image. You'll learn differently than translating one 2D image into another 2D image.
That's just my extra cent based on distant memories of used to studying only from Life everyday.
Above all, most importantly, it's about learning. If you can't study from Life about something, use Photo, Video, something that looks similar from Life. Whatever you do, do. Then pause and look, and think about what it's done for you, and whether it deserves a contract renewal. If not, fire it and interview a new method, a new setup, etc.
Let's say with the same end goal of making a copy drawing similar to what you're looking at, how the process of doing that from Life and from Photo begets different walks and collections of fruits of knowledge.
My guess is Photo you can measure and manipulate all you want to on a screen with ruler or Photoshop rather quickly, but Life you can't really do that. You hold up a ruler to that T-Rex skeleton towering over you, then put the ruler down on your paper, but there's a lot of thinking, deciding, and thinking again before you can translate that measurement into something that helps your drawing achieve that feel you want. You'll be forced to think a LOT of why, why, why when studying from Life. And in that slow, sometimes frustrating, mind-churning process, you'll about what you're drawing and how to translate that whole thing into a representative 2D image. You'll learn differently than translating one 2D image into another 2D image.
That's just my extra cent based on distant memories of used to studying only from Life everyday.
Above all, most importantly, it's about learning. If you can't study from Life about something, use Photo, Video, something that looks similar from Life. Whatever you do, do. Then pause and look, and think about what it's done for you, and whether it deserves a contract renewal. If not, fire it and interview a new method, a new setup, etc.