/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>Hated learning anatomy
>Start just drawing people and learning the basic forms
>Didn't realize WHY life drawing was so good for learning how to draw
>Did a couple of exercises on small parts of my own body, but posing and drawing completely inhibited me
>Decided to use 3D models because Proko recommends it
>It's no different from having a live model in front of you
>Have a blast
>Finally having fun "studying"
>Art from imagination looks 10x better after 3 hours of this spanned over 2 days
>Not even close to mastery

Pictures are completely useless if you don't know what you're looking at. I'd say there is no bigger waste of time than trying to learn how to draw people from photographs with no prior background in life drawing. You're literally ice-skating up hill at that point. I wish someone would have said something earlier. It's an obvious pit-fall in learning how to draw people when you see all of these instructors drawing from pictures. They've already absorbed the information from life-studies, and you're left wondering why it's so hard for you as you watch them work from intuition/memory. You can read all the books you like. None of it will help you if you aren't doing some form of life-drawing. It's the thing that will make or break artistic progress.

The next time I see someone with flat, ugly doctor-tier anatomy, I'll know what to tell them since I've gone through it myself. People were very enigmatic about "anatomy" whenever I posted my work ITT. Now I finally understand what they meant, but it would have been very easy to explain in a response.

At least I know what muscle I'm drawing from various angles, so the time wasn't a total waste. I still can't believe how easy it is to learn when you can run through 20 or so models. You internalize virtually everything faster than you can believe.

I always thought my mind was too weak, and I simply needed to grind mindlessly. I never realized how imperative it is to break apart models from a 3D space.

>>2779618
>tfw hyped to read more

I've got too many questions now

What are some good books to learn anatomy from?

I don't feel very comfortable with Burne Hoggarth, but I did really like Michael Hampton's anatomical course. It feels like I'll run through Hoggarth's book, and I'll wind up only able to draw super-heroes for some reason.

What are the best books for someone new to the human figure to learn from?

I've learned some anatomical details, but I've never really learned how to put them in perspective. I was hoping Hampton's book would help me out with that since he teaches gesture drawing and everything, but he never showed me how to do it.

Is Loomis the only answer here, or is there a different art teacher out there?

>Do Peter Han Dynamic sketching
>It's incredibly tedious
>Listen to Pet Shop Boys and take a moment to think about my line speed
>Can do 3 hours of this because I mindlessly scroll 4chan while listening to pop music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg

>>2603467
Mr. 3D here

>Blurred lines
>It actually looks 3D

I can't believe this. I guess my line work truly is the reason everything I do doesn't look 3D.

It sucks, but by the time I learn how to do good lines, I'll forget how to do 3D.