So as I was drawing through bridgman. A thought appeared into my head, "Wait a minute, should I be drawing an artist's interpretation of reality first before drawing from life or should I be drawing from reality first before using the interpretations of it from other people as a supplement?" At first, I thought it was stupid. Because im a beg and of course I've have to start off with the easy shit first. But the deeper I went with it. It actually starts to make sense. I looked through some research and I've discovered that a lot of the old art masters actually got good from just studying from life.I think im going to go with the second option. But I also want to hear your thoughts about this. Also, I don't have any references from reality and can't afford one. I'm planning to do the next best thing, which is to get some books that aim for anatomical accuracy and a 3d program to study anatomy.
Excuses. Excuses. Excuses.
>>8020904>decide to study from life>proceed to copy photos insteadanon...
>>8020904Do both, but don’t neglect copying from other artists either. Other artists have already done the hard part of figuring out how to stylize and simplify a given object, so study how they did it. If you ONLY draw from life then you’d basically be trying to reinvent all of art from scratch.
read the title of the bookread it againtry to understand what the words meanilliterate zoomer
>>8020989The book doesn’t have any “life” in it, just his shitty drawings, so I can see why someone would get confused
>>8020990bridgman's drawings are great though retard
>>8020991Nice try crab
>>8020991They’re fine for what they are. It’s not anything that I would want to emulate
>nice try crab
>I love japanese cock and balls.>I suck japanese cocks all day every day
Imagine being this butthurt about some scribbles from 100 years ago lmao
David Finch said that copying Bridgman twice is how he got good
i am going to copy bridgman starting tonight but i am not doing any shading or rendering
>>8021036That’s great, because Bridgman doesn’t either
>>8021038anons on here told me that i need to do them each with oils though
>>8020904stop overthinking ithttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4ERO4Duqaohe's got a series on using bridgman
you want the anatomy guide. unless you have access to a body you wont be able to draw it right.
>>8021069What? No that’s insane. Use any medium you want
>>8020904You should at least do a bunch of gesture drawing from life before learning anatomy from Brigdman, yes.
>>8021084i wanted to follow along with his stuff but i saw he put an aislop image in his intro and immediately felt demotivated
>>8020904The biggest issue by just copying from books or generally by just copying art from others, is that you just memorize the construction, anatomy or the symbols that they use, but the moment you would try to draw from an actual IRL reference, whether from life or from photo it just all falls apart, because you can't draw what you actually see. So yeah, learning to draw from life/photo reference is kind of what you should be doing most of the time and just supplementing it by studying from books or courses or whatever. For pure realism anyways, since there is just right or wrong. It either looks like the eye of the reference or it doesn't and that means it wrong. Meanwhile for stylization it's kind of whatever since there there isn't any rules that say an eye has to look a certain way, it's just whatever you find appealing and looks "right" to you. I don't think it matters what resources you use to learn anatomy from, doesn't matter how "accurate" it is, at the end of the day you will have to always adjust shit anyways because no one looks the same. Pure realism is just a pile of shit to learn, too many variables, too much reliance on perfect observational skills and the result always ends up like the most boring and meaningless shit you can imagine, because it's only purpose is to measure your skill or to impress normalfags by being a fancy photo printer. There is no way around it if you want to proof you can draw though, unfortunately.
what is the guy above me talking about
>>8020904Anything like Bridgman but anime? I don't want to make american comics.
>>8021783it's not translated, but it principle it's same:人体デッサンの基礎―美術解剖の知識と応用
>>8020904If you actually read the book he never encourages you to just copy his drawings. He just gives an explanation of how you should approach drawing from life with the images as an example. If you want to get good you have to do both, copying and applying the method in a similar style.
>>8021084is this better than moderndayjame's series
