05-08-2021, 07:12 AM
Yeah you basically hit it on the head, Amit. I ended up redrawing the arm at a different angle and making some other changes today. Idk if it's really drawn better, per se, but it IS smaller lol! Maybe that's the best I can do for it.
I guess I have to disagree with the "never let accuracy get in the way..." maxim in this case, yeah. I have to kind of remind myself that academic exercises are academic, and 'making a good drawing' is something different, less literal. If it were my choice I wouldn't draw it this way at all, honestly. I would add the stuff in the background, change the pose a bit, and so on. Having a blank background with just this line for the floor is extremely boring and awkward to me. But the point is to get a handle on the tonal relationships and proportions, and that's it really. More and more I should be able to make artistic choices without sacrificing the accuracy to nature, and that's the goal.
Not that you have to literally copy everything like a photo at the atelier, that isn't the case at all, but if you start taking little liberties it leads to more and more, causing cascading errors like you said. and then suddenly your work is only loosely tied to nature at that point.. so amendments have to be made really cautiously. Not that it's an excuse for this drawing haha, I just think it happened to come out somewhat awkwardly this time, though the value relationships are not bad.
I guess I have to disagree with the "never let accuracy get in the way..." maxim in this case, yeah. I have to kind of remind myself that academic exercises are academic, and 'making a good drawing' is something different, less literal. If it were my choice I wouldn't draw it this way at all, honestly. I would add the stuff in the background, change the pose a bit, and so on. Having a blank background with just this line for the floor is extremely boring and awkward to me. But the point is to get a handle on the tonal relationships and proportions, and that's it really. More and more I should be able to make artistic choices without sacrificing the accuracy to nature, and that's the goal.
Not that you have to literally copy everything like a photo at the atelier, that isn't the case at all, but if you start taking little liberties it leads to more and more, causing cascading errors like you said. and then suddenly your work is only loosely tied to nature at that point.. so amendments have to be made really cautiously. Not that it's an excuse for this drawing haha, I just think it happened to come out somewhat awkwardly this time, though the value relationships are not bad.