There was nothing more important than learning bone-structure and muscle structure when it came to drawing the human body. That sounds obvious, but until I started to understand the shape of things internally, my stuff was extremely flat and incorrect looking. When understanding why things are given the shape that they are internally, drawings seem to become so much more real and believable.
At this point I can do a pretty good job of looking at something and replicating it roughly onto paper. However, this kind of drawing is really not what I'm interested in. I'm not looking for photo-realistic portraits or amazingly replicated scenery. Drawing anything I can imagine is my ultimate goal in this whole endeavor. I want to be able to picture something in my mind and draw it to paper. Always nice to have hefty goals.
Something that's always been important for me, at least at a subconscious level, is why I am learning/doing something. If I don't know why what I'm doing is important, my heart is never into it. If I don't agree with why it's important, I won't care about it either. Right now I'm having a blast with drawing, and that's reason enough.
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This post, while moderately interesting, does not excuse having no new drawings available.
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