/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I’m phone posting so forgive the typos.
Here is another screen shot from the first book.
In this section you will learn not only proportion but figures perspective in a fun and economical way. In Loomis he shows a a fully drawn loomis-figure in a similar box form. If you dont already know how to draw a good figure you pretty much have to file it away and hope you return to it later. Our Japanese friend gets right to it and you can learn and practice two things at once.
In Bammes (the greatest books/system of figure drawing instruction ever) he stresses the importance of and spends a surprising amount of time teaching proportion. He teaches it in ways that prevent you from getting hung up on the actual drawing so you can learn and internalize the proportions and basic masses. For example he gives exercises where you use a flat brush (or a watercolor brush, like 8-9 size, fully loaded and wet) and build your figures up from the inside out, quickly - aimed solely at understanding, not the picture. The reason for this is that a proportionately correct figure (understood on a deep level not just from memory and checking), executed in primitive shapes with the side of a piece of chalk actually reads more satisfactorily (unless you are a pleb maybe) than a tight, fully rendered but superficially understood drawing.
Anyway, with this in mind if you look at pick related, just using sticks and rectangles in 2D you can learn this, sketch out figures in sophisticated positions correctky, and build up from that when you’ve mastered it. But its WHEN he introductes this and the difference it will make after its second nature, when you try to add 3D to it that shows the author is an actual teacher and a good one.

Dont believe or agree? Cool. Up to you.