AfricanVoodoo's Sketchbook

[Fedodika]

It's like everything relates to its most basic components. A leg is going to be drawn based on how well you can draw C curves, show that forms are round, and how well you can draw cylinders. If you can't draw a nice mannequin with no anatomy, just boxes showing where each major mass would be, the anatomy on it is going to be irrelevant, and just noise. 

I remember people have told me this exact stuff over and over again through the years, and it finally makes sense. Someone's inability to draw a leg isn't because they can't draw a "leg" but because they can't draw the cylinders and the form showing C curves and straight lines that make those cylinders. 

Literally everything that exists can be made into primitive shapes, and the better you are at showing how those primitive shapes exist in 3d space with confident lines and perspective immediately makes you better at drawing literally anything. 

The only thing left to learn would be the visual language of say horses or legs or anything, which is anatomy. And that stuff is amazingly easy when you can simplify anything.