The Conquest of Space

[Mechanizoid]

Hey Sketchsoph,
I agree with you regarding this technique, the only reason I did it was because I got a bit frustrated doing the Dynamic Sketching 'cause I was afraid of drawing from observation. I felt that if I drew from something in front of me, I would get it wrong. I used the abstracted blobs thing like training wheels, but honestly I think I've gone as far as the method allows now.

This Betty Edward's technique is definitely pure observational drawing ONLY, and drastically limited by copying from a 2d thing. I'm going practice from still life to train my eye further.

Think about it. If you want to draw shapes and forms from imagination, Noah`s tutorial doesn`t help at all. It doesn`t teach you essential fundamentals such as perspective, anatomy and so on.

Instead, I would suggest the following:

- focus on your fundamentals
- practice straight lines, boxes etc...
- stick to your dynamic sketching excercises

I really like your organic form intersection excercises - keep pushing!

Definitely! Since I want to draw mechamonsters those fundamentals are critical. Also, I dislike purely observational 2d methods of thinking, useful as these techniques can be for nailing correct proportions and so forth. So back to Dynamic Sketching. :D