Hey guys! I’m done with the muscles study! This means that the next logical thing to do after is to apply what I learned in a painting or something. Also, the next set of studies would be on the external form. I’ll be focusing next on gestures, form and light.
In the meantime, I’ll be doing more stuff for the two blog posts that I owe myself. I just need to seriously make myself more efficient. Which reminds me of the parkinson’s law I got from Dave Rapoza. It goes like:
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
In art, this means that on top of your long term goals, you should also make hourly or daily smaller goals that would help build up to your long term one. If not, then you would most likely just keep on waiting to find to right time to do something so make those mini deadlines!
Really nice! I notice you seem to do direct copies of Loomis and Lemen. Does the copying actually help, or is it to help set up for the few model studies you also do? I have all these books too, but besides reading and learning the text, i am not sure how to use the images besides as examples for the theories in there. Any advice?
Thanks! Actually, copying does help save the visual elements in your head. The problem with copying is that it would only be really effective if you apply what you’ve learned ASAP before you forget. That’s exactly what I’m doing now. I’m trying to create fantasy creatures, people, while applying what I’ve learned. Occasionally, I check my sketchpad to verify my anatomy.
To be honest, I only read like around 2 paragraphs from andrew loomis’ book. I don’t recommend drowning yourself too much with theories because it’s easy to get lost. The better approach is to try lots of practice and application first and then read theories AFTER just to clear out your doubts.
If you’d like to see more people doing this approach, check out the Crimson Dagger’s link at the side of my site. Cheers!