/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6940432

Break it down into shapes is a shorthand way to develop an intuitive understanding of how 3D space functions on the page. It's a translation method from imagination to tangible creation and it's part of the language. If you can manipulate basic shapes (IE if you can combine boxes in perspective into any possible configuration, like paper mache) inside your mind and on the page, you can use that knowledge to draw just about anything.

You have to remember that drawing is a visual language. Like our verbal language, it takes time for it to become intuitive. Think about the first time you dried to write a full sentence, how much brain power and effort it took to memorize words and paragraph structures. It probably wasn't until your early to middle teens that you felt fully confident that you could express yourself with words. Visual art is the same. You need to build the internal / external translation pathways in your brain and yes it is very difficult. Until suddenly it's not. Keep pushing.