Getting better at drawing is something that is learned. Go ahead and look at the "Masters". They will teach you the best. They would be Leonardo, Raphael, and the rest. By looking at their drawings, you should better understand anatomy and composition.
Original post by archival Getting better at drawing is something that is learned. Go ahead and look at the "Masters". They will teach you the best. They would be Leonardo, Raphael, and the rest. By looking at their drawings, you should better understand anatomy and composition.
Not to be an ass, but wouldn't you understand better by looking at real people or photographs of real people?
Original post by Servant of the Lord ...my freehand art is horrible...
If you're drawing from a picture, try turning the picture upside down. You might be surprised at the results.
(Posed as a genuine question) What's the logic behind that? Is it because the eye actually sees things upside down before the brain flips the image right side up?
Original post by Servant of the Lord ...my freehand art is horrible...
If you're drawing from a picture, try turning the picture upside down. You might be surprised at the results.
(Posed as a genuine question) What's the logic behind that? Is it because the eye actually sees things upside down before the brain flips the image right side up?
Also, wouldn't looking at things upside down degrade one's pose understanding?
Original post by Servant of the Lord ...my freehand art is horrible...
If you're drawing from a picture, try turning the picture upside down. You might be surprised at the results.
(Posed as a genuine question) What's the logic behind that? Is it because the eye actually sees things upside down before the brain flips the image right side up?
I've tried that experiment before, and it does work; the upside down drawing does look better. I don't know if this is a beginner artist thing, and once you've got your "artist's eye" it doesn't matter though.
My guess is that by turning the picture upside-down you bypass that bit of your brain that tries to recognise what each individual component is so you can simply draw what's there. If you draw the right way up there's a bit of your mind that's thinking "I'm drawing this guy's hands now, so I think they should look like this" rather than actually drawing what the hands really do look like.
Most people examine an object and draw it though the structure they percieve it to have, meaning that most people, when they draw what they are seeing, are allowing their brain to alter it through pre-concieved notions, and through an unnecessary additional step of over analyzation and interpretation...its a hard thing to describe.
When you draw something upside down you begin with no pre-concieved structural ideals. You tend to see and draw, instead of see, interpret and draw. Its a very simple exercise, and one I had planned on doing. There are a lot of these, most of them come from a methodology of learning to draw with the left side of your brain, and its a really really good way to learn.
There are alot of books on this, most of which I will be taking exercises right out of.
