/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3913998
Fair enough, I did misinterpret you.

If you are a /beg/ level then you are just as well off as learning from Vilppu and Huston because they are so good.

However in my opinion if you want to learn from a strictly academic approach, I would argue learning from the Russians is the best way to go. They take the best of both worlds - their equally concerned with constructing and emphasizing the figure's form via anatomy knowledge as it is from accurate observational drawing. The end result is that the drawings seem to have a tangible solidity and structure to them, like a sculpture and yet they still look lifelike, even when they use an impressionistic approach to rendering. As far as I know, no other academic school of thought in the West takes construction and complete knowledge of anatomy as seriously as the Russians.

For this reason I am not really a fan of the Bargue style Sight-Size method which you can see in Juliette Aristides drawings... Which really is much more like copying things just how you see them at a surface level.

This drawing gives you an idea of the amount of constructive drawing they do. Simplifying into basic shapes, visualizing the skeleton underneath, and of course they do a lot of studies of muscles.