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Published: 2019-06-08 01:57:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 279; Favourites: 16; Downloads: 0
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Taking the figure drawing summer course I took the summer of 2017 c: I hope to see improvements, though it's not perfect, I think it's more defined than before!Some silly sketches here and there between the figure stuff
anywho here's around 6.5 hours of art
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when you figure draw, what's your goal, so to speak? to be quick and accurate, or to be quick but attentive to the anatomy? i'd really like to start figure drawing regularly, but it's a bit overwhelming. i understand and can visualize lots of components of realistic anatomy in a sort of 3D space when everything's separate from each other, but when i try to just jump in to things like this, i fall apart bc it won't come together in my mind.
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Hello there!! So our instructor actually talked to us for around an hour or two about this subject, so i'll try to help answer some of these.
What is the goal?: it depends on what class you take, and the type of person your instructor honestly is, but for our class, our instructor has told us that this is our decision. We have to make the goal up for ourselves, and it can't just be: I want to draw better. focus on what it is you want to specifically portray. But in more general, helpful terms atleast, we want to learn not how to copy what we see, but to fully understand it. Because maybe you can look at the figure and replicate it perfectly on paper, but if you go home andΒ you can't draw from within your own head, than what's the point? You could say that the end goal is being able to capture the feeling and spirit of the pose and figure, and to be able to understand drawing that form, not through copying
In our class, our instructor mentions that drawing the figure is divided into several parts. I don't have them all written down, but the first is gesture lines, long swooping soft lines that capture the movement and understanding, stuff like anatomical details, proportions, and value (shading) come after that
I'm certainly no professional, but when it comes to the question of what is your goal in figure drawing, i feel that it's best we go with his response, which is that each individual person should create their own goal in their work!
I guess if I were to answer that question, it would be to sort of have mass and weight and character be understood through the posture and attitude of a figures pose. I feel that my work in general is lacking in anatomy and looseness, so I could answer the question in many ways, there are many goals!
For the second part of what you mentioned, it is important to see the body in separate parts, but not just separate parts, if you only ever learn each individual part, you will fail in understanding how they fit and lock and move together! (Which I'm pretty sure I still do, but I still can't quite define my work to this day to be able to say what Im lacking in and what not!) but definitley lots of practice, and if you can manage to take classes now and again, it will be helpful, I can vouch for it.
Drawing through the fom and figure, not just drawing what you see, but drawing the things you don't see, help in constructing the final image, and in capturing the form.
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thanks! i've asked several artists what they thought the goal was, and nobody has really had a definitive answer?? i feel like it could help my art loosen up bc my poses just come out so stiff. it's kind of disheartening having an image in your head and coming kinda close, but not really being able to capture exactly what you have in mind.
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