Serious question. How do you actually feel the form? How to gain it as a beginner? I'm a permabeg for so long, everything I draw, even the things I copied in figure drawing book fall flat. How do I avoid this? How do I train to draw from better?
Okay do this. Grab the nearest cylinder shaped object around you, like your dildo for example, and then grab the shaft. Really focus on its form. Then as you're drawing on the canvas, imagine you are just tracing the form of the dildo you were holding. Congrats, you just visualized and "felt" the form. All that feeling the form is, is teaching your brain to hallucinate a sense of 3d form within a 2d plane. So if you're struggling to understand form, unironically handling primitives or boobs helps you understand those forms better if you're paying close attention to how they feel within your hand and sit in space .
>>7965853So you're saying fucking myself in the ass with a dildo will help me visualize how to draw an ass being fucked?
>>7965855That's the spirit buddy, but the key here is to really focus on the sensation of the form, key distinction is mindfulness and intention, otherwise you're just fucking yourself in the ass with a dildo and that's gay. Really drawing the form of the cock fucking an ass as you're being shafted is best practice procedure. It's a very common tech within the nsfw industry the pros don't want you to know about
>>7965836You're gonna want to spam and grind continuous line drawings and blind contours like crazy. Do the marker on a glass/plastic sheet exercise from DRSB for cuboid/spherical objects, too. If you can grab toys/models to study, even better.It's something that some artists tend to gatekeep from begs to prevent competition.
>>7965869If you are able to do this before without learning it you assume it's something everybody can do.Just like people with inner monologue think it's universal. They aren't malicious, they are badteachers that can't empathize with their students to figure out what they don't know. Also if youusually rely on thinking in images I'd imagine it's hard to start thinking in form. I think I have aphantasiawhich makes it harder to create interesting image composition without trial and erro but made me understand form better than most begs at the beginning since I've always predominantly thought involumes, spaces and language. I also think that's why many begs always drift towards symbold drawing.They think in images.
>>7965836Preston Blair still has the best demonstration of this. By the way, he's not suggesting you imagine an egg. He's telling you to do this with an actual, physical egg.You should also take different physical objects in your room, rotate them physically and draw them from every angle. You should pretty quickly pick up on what "form" means and why it's so important.
>>7965875I've heard that for some people with aphantasia, they tend to be autistic and have difficulty with 3D thinking compared to dyslexic people who are born with strong 3D thinking.The solution to aphantasia is to just anchor images and memory to senses: feel things, smell them, taste them, etc. Let your mind wander, allow yourself to daydream and think back on strong memories of things. Listen to audiobooks or movies with your eyes closed.related: https://menwitz.medium.com/my-journey-to-cure-my-aphantasia-b17552c27b28
>>7965836>How do you actually feel the form?You just do. What's your IQ?
>>7965857hey i think it worked
>>7965836It's literally just drawing wrapping lines to show how they curve around the surface of the 3D form. Loomis shows you at the start of FWAP how to draw wrapping lines on a circle to turn it into a sphere. You can do it with any 3D surface though, it doesn't have to be spheres. That's literally all it is: it's just wrapping lines. "Feel the form" makes it sound ephemeral or mystical, but it's actually really simple.You kind of just have to copy enough examples until you can feel it intuitively, there's not really an algorithm for it.
>>7965869>continuous line drawings and blind contoursWhat do these do? I feel like I'm doing the same thing I always do but the result looks like shit
>>7965836You need to study the various lines your body makes from different angles, the volumes of the various muscles and then practice
