04-27-2017, 10:51 AM
Oh I don't think you misinterpreted what I said Neo! Fedo, I'm not up in arms or anything haha, just wanted to address what seemed like a misinterpretation? :)
Yeah application is a broad catchall word that isn't very useful and gets people confused. So if you have been studying boxes and rotating them in perspective for a bit, you might then try and construct a scene with buildings in it that are also differently rotated in perspective, or do some figure construction which relies heavily on being able to rotate bounding boxes in perspective well. A funny thing to think about is that if you do multiple studies of the same things, the later studies are almost "applications" of the older studies haha.
The application doesn't have to be a full blown illustration at all, but I think it should be directly aligned to test the skills you were just practicing but towards a purpose of actually drawing something as opposed to simply drawing a cube rotated in perspective for the sake of that alone. After all the purpose of study is to get better at the general craft, not to get better at study.
This applies hugely to creating illustrations though, because by studying specific things that you intend to have in the illustration beforehand, you will simply just do better in the final. It can make study more purposeful and allow you to test where you need more work.
Yeah application is a broad catchall word that isn't very useful and gets people confused. So if you have been studying boxes and rotating them in perspective for a bit, you might then try and construct a scene with buildings in it that are also differently rotated in perspective, or do some figure construction which relies heavily on being able to rotate bounding boxes in perspective well. A funny thing to think about is that if you do multiple studies of the same things, the later studies are almost "applications" of the older studies haha.
The application doesn't have to be a full blown illustration at all, but I think it should be directly aligned to test the skills you were just practicing but towards a purpose of actually drawing something as opposed to simply drawing a cube rotated in perspective for the sake of that alone. After all the purpose of study is to get better at the general craft, not to get better at study.
This applies hugely to creating illustrations though, because by studying specific things that you intend to have in the illustration beforehand, you will simply just do better in the final. It can make study more purposeful and allow you to test where you need more work.