/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6701657
I'm going to chime in and say that this anon is actually 100% correct. You get way more bang for your buck by analysis-via-construction rather than copying, like MDJ does here.
However, to be fair, in the context of the David Finch post, the advice is directed at /beg/-mid/beg/ who at that point need mileage and good copying/hand-eye-coordination ability more than anything else, and at that point probably have little constructive drawing ability if at all, idk. Maybe for /int/s who can into construction pretty well, this challenge could be updated with a third pass wherein you go over each section of the book and construct your own figures based off the principles shown in Bridgman's work? Something to think about.

>>6701593
I myself am looking to try my hand at this challenge simply because my ability to copy things as I see them is rather weak, even though I've got pretty strong raw construction/perspective/imagination drawing ability (inb4 pyw, mw is p in picrelated). I've hardly straight up copied anything in my life outside of a few comic pages when I was something like 12 years old and a few gesture drawing sessions using gesture drawing tools online. My path of learning followed the Mark's Drawing Tutorials/ Peter Han's Dynamic Sketching route of focusing on pure construction from imagination, developing a strong sense of form and "drawing inside the page", as it were. I think this has worked very well for me in the end, better even than just copying things a lot would have, but in the end I want to revisit and strengthen the skill of purely-2D xeroxing because I believe that it's a part of a strong foundation in drawing fundamentals.

I'm not entirely sure whether I would be better served doing the Bargues plates or doing this though. Anybody got advice on this front, especially any anons from /msg/?

>>6657558
Hello fellow monkey brained comrade
>>6657549
SOVL
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>>6661444
Very nice, and I'm jealous of your relative skill and youth. I will be coming along to harvest your young blood and adrenochrome shortly
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>>6660336
'Preciate the compliment, m8s.
>>6662095
This is sick, holy
>>6661634
>Learn to draw something other than anime.
*astronaut-with-pistol-pointed-at-other-astronaut's-back-in-space.jpg* Always have been
>See what happens when you apply yourself more?
Do you say that because it's not anniemoo or because it's more finished looking?
Anyways, it was an automatic drawing/doodle and I had my brain turned off for 90% of it, so I'm not sure I'd really call it "applying myself". Like I said, I just work off of bursts of inspiration and once that's over I can't be bothered to work on a piece anymore.