/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3109485
meme. Just draw from real life and challenge yourself. When you hit a plateau read books. How to Draw/ Render, Glenn Vilppu, Hampton, etc...

>>3109528
Books dont help you at all.

>>3109531
>hurr unguided grinding is the best, why listen to advice from people with much more experience

>>3109533
what did you learn from those books that you couldnt on your own

tell me

>>3109528
Once you get a good handle on perspective you have everything you need to draw (something) from imagination. so drawing platonic solids cant be a bad place to start.

>>3109531
Not if you're a talentless hack. If you have an inch of aptitude books will help you.

>>3109485
perspective is off.

>>3109531
I think that's a little extreme. Good techincal books like Scott Robertson's I think are the most useful in the majority of people - anatomy books are more or less overvalued especially by beginners when they can just learn how to blend well, train their eye, and do studies. Once they realize that they'd never need another anatomy book.

>>3109558
>Once they realize that they'd never need another anatomy book
That really depends of what they want to do though, hobbyists probably can get away with just studies, people in for the long run should do both, anatomy is important.

>>3109548
yeah lol, was thinking the same

>>3109485
The kid has no business teaching drawing. This was what was on his first lesson when I was first linked his site. I believe he changed it now.

Don't bother trying to learn from anyone under 40.

>>3109595
he basically just lifted his lessons from other sources. the fact that that exercise was the FIRST lesson should show how lazily it was all cobbled together.

don't learn from ISIS

>>3109595
what's wrong with that?

>>3109595
jesus

I tried drawabox for a few weeks when I first started drawing last year, and quit drawing for months when I got halfway through his dumb 250 boxes challenge. Fuck that shit.

>>3109595
>has no business
but he does have one, and it's growing to be quite lucrative. drawabox is doing very well, stay mad nerds

>>3109595
That's actually a really good exercise. You should do this with heads and other stuff. Its a good way of organizing the idea of rotating something. I can think of synthesizing two adjacent forms to get the next iteration. Fantastic really.

>>3109595
is this stolen from krenz or what?

>>3109485
I would say partially. There are some things you can take away from the early lessons while the later ones are trash. You can see that he was just regurgitating Peter Han's teachings and it starts falling apart for him when you look at dynamic sketching.

So my conclusion is that:
Part 1: Good
Part 2: A mess
Part 3: ?
Part 4A: A mess
Part 4B: Ok.

What I would suggest is to read varying books, study and practice from well established and known persons. Its clear that drawabox is new and still working out what the hell he wants to do.

tldr: Meme for now.

>>3109710
It's just a standard rotation of boxes, you can't steal that.

>>3109540
Shows that you're just not advanced enough to notice that you need anatomy.