05-28-2016, 09:19 PM
Oh no, you didn't explicitly say that, but implicit in your words (and I might be wrong) it sounded like you were saying gestures are pointless unless you do anatomy and form first. I don't have that fundamental a view, that is all.
Of course any one thing taken to extremes without focusing on the other important things will result in a bad outcome.
I see no issues with someone doing gesture studies, as long as, they also end up filling in the gaps with anatomy at some point. Does it matter if one is first? Well probably it does if we want to talk about efficiency of learning, but as long as they know they are going to have to do anatomy and form study, this isn't the same as a case of only drawing one profile a billion times and doing nothing else.
Yeah, the survivor bias is a funny one. "If I do things exactly like that person, I will be able to do exactly what they do, and look at how awesome they are". It's like the guru chasing syndrome you will find in spiritual circles. Same human nature shit. Idolise another, go to them for teaching, assume they will do the work for you.
I think the issue you might have been having is that gesture is seen as so important to beginners...but you seem to be equating that to a singular focus on gesture as if that is all they know and will ever learn. Probably not, given how much is out there on form, construction, anatomy etc. :) I totally agree with you on your main point.
Of course any one thing taken to extremes without focusing on the other important things will result in a bad outcome.
I see no issues with someone doing gesture studies, as long as, they also end up filling in the gaps with anatomy at some point. Does it matter if one is first? Well probably it does if we want to talk about efficiency of learning, but as long as they know they are going to have to do anatomy and form study, this isn't the same as a case of only drawing one profile a billion times and doing nothing else.
Yeah, the survivor bias is a funny one. "If I do things exactly like that person, I will be able to do exactly what they do, and look at how awesome they are". It's like the guru chasing syndrome you will find in spiritual circles. Same human nature shit. Idolise another, go to them for teaching, assume they will do the work for you.
I think the issue you might have been having is that gesture is seen as so important to beginners...but you seem to be equating that to a singular focus on gesture as if that is all they know and will ever learn. Probably not, given how much is out there on form, construction, anatomy etc. :) I totally agree with you on your main point.