Are videos superior than books for learning things?Like, whenever I try to read a book, and understand the material that it teaches. It feels like I'm fucking trying to decipher a language before I actually start to learn shit.With videos though that doesn't happen.This all came from my own experience with a perspective book.I just read half of perspective made easy and all of their instructions of exercises/assignments are fucking complex. Mind you, this is a book for begs. The exercises itself are not complex. Judging from my own experience. But on the other hand, the instructions for the exercises are complex. It is like trying to draw something complex, that you have no idea of what it looks like. Even some of the knowledge in one of the chapters before the exercises is hidden behind convoluted sophistry.The only reason, I've tolerated books so far is because they're easier to pirate and videos are more scarce.
>>7945851>draw line parallel with horizon>draw line towards vanishing pointWhat more do you need?
>>7945851It depends on your learning style. I prefer books because they are more straightforward
Videos are superior because you have someone virtually teaching you what to do whereas a book can only really help you out if you already know how to teach yourself. With a video, you usually are told what you need to do, then have the process modeled sequentially before you try it out yourself. Granted, not every video is like this but the best ones are (particularly some East Asian ones). Perspective Made Easy is honestly fucking bizarre, I've had the exact same issue. The exercises are simple, public school art teachers use them in their classes. But most of the actual text just gets in the way. Sometimes you get the opposite problem where the book is nothing BUT drawings and pictures with no explanation and God forbid they're too high-concept for you. I blame the issue on artists forgetting that their books are supposed to be for newbies and not people who've been drawing for a few years. But the books that ARE meant for begs are often neglected or put to the side in favor of what's popular or old.
>>7945921So, what other perspective books do you recommend other than perspective made easy? I mean, I do want to move on to perspective videos, but I don't want to miss out on hidden gems.
>>7945974Extreme Perspective, Perspective in Action, and Perspective for the Comic Artist by David Chelsea are really good. Dong Ho Kim's Space Drawing too. Drawing Perspective by Tim Fisher is good, too.In my own experience, perspective is "easy" once you internalize that it's really just about making sure everything is scaled properly, that the horizon line is consistent, and to remember vanishing points. But that only really happens if you study landscapes and do copies/studies of scenes/environments/interiors for long enough. Drawabox is pushed too soon on begs and is overrated in certain aspects, but the core teaching is still valuable.I'd also suggest you study cars and other vehicles for help with improving perspective.
>>7945990Hmm, most of these seem to immediately dive in into the intermediate stuff. I want to build my basic beg perspective foundations first before diving into it.
>>7945974The perspective drawing handbook. The best one out there
>>7946042I think Loomis has a book that's in good part about perspective, it might be Successful Drawing? Double check that, because for one, I'm unsure if it's actually in that book, and for two, his earlier lessons on perspective from FWAP and FDFAIW leave a lot to be desired.
>>7945854Yeah man just place things/people/your shitty OC inside boxes. Kim jong un or whatever his name was did it that way
>>7946042I struggle to understand what is this "intermediate" stuff even. If you've finished grade school, you should know all geometry you need.
>>7946131To be fair he has parts of perspective in all of his books. But yeah successful drawing is the one that probably has the most
>>7945851Sorry but it's impossible for us westoids to learn perspective in 2026. Don't try to fly too close to the sun
Most videos just reiterate shit from books but with live demos
>>7945851That book was publish during ww2. The way people structured their sentences and expression are different from now. that's why you might feel like you are decipher the text. I have noticed that books form the 80s are easier to understand, mainly because they express things similar to modern day language. Not this odd way of saying things like loomis era books"someone makes a mark around the wall the same height from the floor as your eye" odd way of saying "imagine a line on the walls at your eye-level"
>>7945851Use both.Personally like books more.>>7946042Unsure how any of you are getting filtered by that book but eh...Perspective made eazy or that 100 hour perspective kerenz course or Dan Beardshaw.Idk how you are getting filtered by perspective made eazy, will admit that fuck ass explination on how to place vanishing points is very oddly worded and how to draw by Scott Robertson does a better job explaining it (it is an otherwise intermediate book, advanced being something like complete guide from 1 to 6 by Craig Attenberry)
>>7945851> Are videos superior than books for learning things?sometimes.you have to understand this: the amount of effort you're willing to provide weight say 100. the amount of differences between average and good books or videos weight more like 5 to 10.so working hard is about 10 to 20 times more efficient than looking for a better course (in general).>I just read half of perspective made easy and all of their instructions of exercises/assignments are fucking complexyeah I see what you mean. no books or videos is perfect, they all have their own flaws. just stick to it, try to make sense of it or set the things bugging you aside for some time and keep going.the difficulty is natural, and part of the process.
