>>3648101
>because it is the artist saying 'yes, I have no creativity, I have no drive, and I have no tolerance for the uphill battle of making something original, but I want to do the same things that other artists do
For me that's not true at all less I would have quit this whole art thing a long time ago. I'm just getting older and at this rate I've been looking to ways to optimize the learning process.
I point to a teacher for example, Karl Gnass (hope I spelled that right) who mentions the "ideal figure" of proportion. Each master has his or her own ideal proportion and every time I learn under a different artist it's relearning a completely different system. So many times you'll see beginner artists draw nude figures in space as observational practice and the get the figure system they're learning under completely off because they're still using conventional techniques they've learned elsewhere. So much time, we're talking years, can be cut from this frustrating pattern by tracing over imagery to deconstruct its components.
Where as in imagination, you can spend all the points learning from tracing to constructing using boxes. A box has no ambiguity like the conventional methods found in Hampton/Vilppu/etc and confidence increases because you are more well equipped with anatomical knowledge.
A better way to see what I mean is through a pie chart maybe I'll make one.
>>3648266
Nice. By the way is this guys book scanned yet?