/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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2/2 This is why KJG draws those boxes in his demos. He uses those quick forms to judge the volume, scale, and orientation of whatever he's about to draw. When he was learning, he was doing that visual math on the page. Now that he's so experienced, he does it in his head. It looks like he just "gets it", but that's only because he's so fluent that he can figure these relationships out in his head before he actually draws them.

It's a lot like how we can think of entire words, phrases, and sentences before we write/speak them. We're fluent in English, but as artists, we must be fluent in the language of art. The rules of reality are akin to grammatical rules and sentence structure. Writers (and speakers) break these on occasion, but the most skilled of them fully understand
1) What the rules are, 2) How they work, and 3) WHY they have to break them.
When high level artists break rules (or make their own to facilitate a style), they can do it far better (and usually easier) they are 100% aware of what they are doing, what will happen because of it, and why.

Our reasons for breaking the rules of reality must be the same way in order for us to make the best decisions when we create. It's a gradual process - we learn by doing as we go - but it's something we have to work towards and keep in mind.