First off, it’s not my intention for you to be ready to start practicing yet (given the information I’ve provided). I’m still in the process of bridging inferential gaps. There will be an article with exercises later. I added a disclaimer in the beginning to make this more clear. I also may be revisiting this article, because it WAS a challenge to write and I think it could be better.
If you want to get started now, I think the best choice is to purchase the “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” workbook (not the textbook, a separate workbook that includes exercises and explanations of why you’re doing them).
DotRSotB emphasizes observation (slower exercises, designed to turn off the verbal center in your brain so you stop being pre-occupied with names, symbols and existing [wrong] knowledge). It won’t actually tie in with THIS article, because this article is prepping you for gesture drawing, which requires you to already have an understanding of observation, but which uses different mechanical skills)
Finally:
“Draw big, sloppy, messy lines roughly where you see your subject has lines. Start over. After 10000 hours of this, the lines will somehow magically start falling where they should be” isn’t not TOO far off (if you have an instructor helping you, and/or more information that I haven’t gotten to yet, it will take 4-8 hours, not 10,000.” This was literally the response I got from the student who was most “trusting” (i.e. went along with the process, trusting me with his brain). At hour 6 he was like “I.… I dunno if this is working and I don’t really understand it” and then at hour 8 he was like “oh wow holy crap look at that”
(which is not to say he was drawing perfectly then, but his messy lines were appearing in the right place, and he understood when they were in the wrong place and why)
In order for that to happen, you WILL need to understand things better than you do now. Yes, if I were to abruptly cut off now, you’d be right to feel frustrated.
First off, it’s not my intention for you to be ready to start practicing yet (given the information I’ve provided). I’m still in the process of bridging inferential gaps. There will be an article with exercises later. I added a disclaimer in the beginning to make this more clear. I also may be revisiting this article, because it WAS a challenge to write and I think it could be better.
If you want to get started now, I think the best choice is to purchase the “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” workbook (not the textbook, a separate workbook that includes exercises and explanations of why you’re doing them).
http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Workbook/dp/1585421952#reader_1585421952
DotRSotB emphasizes observation (slower exercises, designed to turn off the verbal center in your brain so you stop being pre-occupied with names, symbols and existing [wrong] knowledge). It won’t actually tie in with THIS article, because this article is prepping you for gesture drawing, which requires you to already have an understanding of observation, but which uses different mechanical skills)
Finally:
“Draw big, sloppy, messy lines roughly where you see your subject has lines. Start over. After 10000 hours of this, the lines will somehow magically start falling where they should be” isn’t not TOO far off (if you have an instructor helping you, and/or more information that I haven’t gotten to yet, it will take 4-8 hours, not 10,000.” This was literally the response I got from the student who was most “trusting” (i.e. went along with the process, trusting me with his brain). At hour 6 he was like “I.… I dunno if this is working and I don’t really understand it” and then at hour 8 he was like “oh wow holy crap look at that”
(which is not to say he was drawing perfectly then, but his messy lines were appearing in the right place, and he understood when they were in the wrong place and why)
In order for that to happen, you WILL need to understand things better than you do now. Yes, if I were to abruptly cut off now, you’d be right to feel frustrated.
Oh, okay then. Thanks. I was expecting that after one or two introductory posts you’d start interlacing theory and exercises.
A fair assumption. Sorry about the confusion.