“Six to eight hours of solid work before you start showing improvement, and about twenty hours total before you start to exhaust the low hanging fruit.”
Can we put this to the test? I’d like to see some people keep every drawing they make in the first twenty hours, scan them, and let us see how much improvement there is.
I’ll volunteer for this, but I’m likely going to do my first 20 hours this week, using different practices than yours, or I will have to do it much later. The reason being that my previous learning experiences tell me that spread out, divided practice is diluted practice. I’m on break from school, so now would be a good time to do this.
I definitely want to test this as much as possible. Uploading every single drawing is probably impractical (we’re talking 30 second gesture drawings… you do the math), not only because it’s a lot for one person to upload, but it’s a lot for people on the interwebs to bother rating. I am planning to post a few drawings from one volunteer to show what kind of improvement I’m talking about.
My initial 8 hour plan was based off a particular class I took in college. I’m pretty positive that it’s not the optimal presentation of material, although it was a good starting place. I’d like to refine various ideas until I’ve figured out an ideal 8 hour class that I can give to random people and get good results as fast as possible. Ultimately, I think we’ll be able to expect improvement to show sooner, although it’ll take some experimentation and research.
Experimentation will be confounded by me getting better at teaching alongside me trying new things.
I agree about diluted practice. I was actually very happy and surprised when results turned out approximately in the timeframe I expected, since there was a multi-week period between the first and second session.
Good luck with your practice. What methods are you using?
“Uploading every single drawing is probably impractical (we’re talking 30 second gesture drawings… you do the math), not only because it’s a lot for one person to upload, but it’s a lot for people on the interwebs to bother rating.”
True, a few drawings from each time period will suffice. I plan to work digitally, since digital drawing is my end-goal, so uploading each drawing is more realistic for me than for pencil and paper practicers.
“What methods are you using?”
I’m planning on following The Natural Way To Draw by Kimon Nicolaides, which advises the first 15-20 hours to be split mostly between contour drawing and gesture drawing.
“Six to eight hours of solid work before you start showing improvement, and about twenty hours total before you start to exhaust the low hanging fruit.”
Can we put this to the test? I’d like to see some people keep every drawing they make in the first twenty hours, scan them, and let us see how much improvement there is.
I’ll volunteer for this, but I’m likely going to do my first 20 hours this week, using different practices than yours, or I will have to do it much later. The reason being that my previous learning experiences tell me that spread out, divided practice is diluted practice. I’m on break from school, so now would be a good time to do this.
I definitely want to test this as much as possible. Uploading every single drawing is probably impractical (we’re talking 30 second gesture drawings… you do the math), not only because it’s a lot for one person to upload, but it’s a lot for people on the interwebs to bother rating. I am planning to post a few drawings from one volunteer to show what kind of improvement I’m talking about.
My initial 8 hour plan was based off a particular class I took in college. I’m pretty positive that it’s not the optimal presentation of material, although it was a good starting place. I’d like to refine various ideas until I’ve figured out an ideal 8 hour class that I can give to random people and get good results as fast as possible. Ultimately, I think we’ll be able to expect improvement to show sooner, although it’ll take some experimentation and research.
Experimentation will be confounded by me getting better at teaching alongside me trying new things.
I agree about diluted practice. I was actually very happy and surprised when results turned out approximately in the timeframe I expected, since there was a multi-week period between the first and second session.
Good luck with your practice. What methods are you using?
“Uploading every single drawing is probably impractical (we’re talking 30 second gesture drawings… you do the math), not only because it’s a lot for one person to upload, but it’s a lot for people on the interwebs to bother rating.”
True, a few drawings from each time period will suffice. I plan to work digitally, since digital drawing is my end-goal, so uploading each drawing is more realistic for me than for pencil and paper practicers.
“What methods are you using?”
I’m planning on following The Natural Way To Draw by Kimon Nicolaides, which advises the first 15-20 hours to be split mostly between contour drawing and gesture drawing.