/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>2974430
For your issues. Doing the line drawing and rendering in values should be enough. My problens werent solved when i did the line drawing but i realized the solutiton when i filled in the highlights (i was doing a paste copy, see attached) once i put the white in the right spots i realized how it should be done. Later in the week when i went to my figure drawing class I encountered the a similar foreshortening of the foot but i just thought about how degas would do it and bam it looked really good. Keep in mind just doing a copy wont make you better, you have to actively think about what youre trying to gain. For me I gained a better understanding of transparncy in a drawing. (imaging the leg through the skirt) and foreshortening + grounding the foot (the ballerinas right foot) as long as i remember how degas approached the problem its not an issue in my own drawings.

This is how you should learn from copying. Just doing it doesnt do shit. You must understand something of theirs and then apply it. Thats also why you shouldnt do them too often. The info wont have time to sink in.