/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>and should be of absolutely no concern to a beginner.
Unless, of course, they want to draw people, as most do. Not only that but anatomy is second to gesture in the way MH teaches, and gesture absolutely is a fundamental skill, being an aspect of composition.

And, above all, art is holistic. There is no strict "big to small". Saying that is to say that there is an arbitrary progression of skills or points of study artists need to go through before tackling another. There is not. There is only the basic truth that learning one skill, either in the realm of "creativity" or "technique", will enhance an artist's skills in other areas (again, art is holistic. each small part benefits every other small part) and the truth is that the more you draw the better you become at drawing, if you go through Michael Hampton's book you will be a better artist for it.

A competent artist will have strong fundamentals and visual library. But the order they're learnt in is neither apparent nor important to the viewer. If you learn perspective you will still need to learn anatomy and vice versa. The end result of a person's studies, whatever order they're done in, will be the same.

You may argue learning in a certain order is "faster" but that, if anything, is the one thing that is absolutely not consistent from one person to another.

Well, all this is to say that you cannot optimize art learning by sequencing it. But you CAN try to recommend the best resources of each subject for people to learn from, and Michael Hampton's book is well worth recommending.

Also, here's one more point to think about: the list that anon gave might not have been any particular order

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