>How to draw anything!>Learn construction and perspective to draw what you see!>How to draw a head / body>Use this process with very specific guidelines, proportions, and techniques to get the head angle, jawline, etc correctWhy can't you just reference a model's face and draw from construction?
>>7773531All those are different ways of saying the same thing, either way you'll have to learn the basic volumes and proportions of everything you want to draw, whether the guidelines are in the canvas or your brain.
Don't get stuck in tutorial hell. Just draw and learn from your mistakes.
>>7773576Well you won't know how to do anything without starting from somewhere, this is like saying just read before learning vocabulary or grammar
>>7773583Not really. Children who enjoy drawing intuitively learn to create all kinds of things
>>7773593drawing poorly and inaccurately would only entertain a child though
>>7773531there are no specific guidelines or proportions. you can invent your own construction or combine different teachings.
>>7773583Enjoy tutorial hell.
>>7773551I shat my pants looking at the second level blockout
>>7773531>Why can't you just reference a model's face and draw from construction?Because then you depend on references to draw anything. If you internalize anatomy and perspecive, then you can draw stuff from memory.Example. You want to draw a cool action pose with a particular character? All you need is to know what that character looks like in a simpler pose and you don't need to find a pose reference with that particular character.Find the same pose with a different character? If you are overly dependent on references people will be able to tell you added elements that make no sense on top of a random figure.
>>7774255I see this makes senseThanks for spelling it outIt seems no matter what I look up though every video, even from creators recommended from good artists, don’t explain what they’re doing well enough More so just why’s they’re doing but not why or how
>>7774365A very nice course that teaches you how to do simple construction is Proko's Anatomy Course.https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtG4P3lq8RHFBeVaruf2JjyQmZJH4__ZvStudy a bit of perspective on top of that and you should have enough resources at your disposal.
>>7774371I was watching stuff by mikeymegamega before and just didn’t really get it
the redpill is anatomy doesn't matter at all. Its form you need to learn. Mastering anatomy will not make your art better, it will only allow you to draw realistic boring figures. Most people want to draw more than that so you have to abstract the anatomy in some way. Might as well learn the abstraction and symbols alongside the anatomy.
>>7774678but [generic art youtuber] told me symbols are bad?
>>7774678>Mastering anatomy will not make your art better, it will only allow you to draw realistic boring figures. Most people want to draw more than that so you have to abstract the anatomy in some wayAnatomy informs the abstraction. Yes, you will want to abstract to make appealing stuff, but you can't abstract what you don't understand. If you only learn symbols you'll only ever be able to draw those symbols, but if you learn how it actually works you can create your own symbols that actually look good. So unless you only ever want to do mastercopies, learning anatomy will be helpful to your art
