/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4511483
>won't teach anything about construction and anatomy and perspective
Yes

>>4511483
>just mindless copying
no

Visual representation (drawing or painting) takes intense focus and the ability to self-check if proportion is correct, aka 'learning to see' (i dislike this term). Perspective, construction, anatomy only comes after you can control proportion.

Copying instructional perspective or anatomy illustrations in a way that will 'sink in' requires you to copy them correctly. If you copy bridgman but do so inaccurately, you're wasting time.

You see it all the time: guy copies bridgman, gets it decent but fucks up proportions. Copies a picture but fucks up proportion. Bitches that he didn't learn anything from bridgman.

Proportion: are the marks correctly spaced in relation to one another? Look at all the shit in /beg/ where someone copies from any kind of reference and ask yourself "can this fucker control proportion?"

Doing sight-size bargue plates will prevent this. It will teach you to measure, which is fundamental to all other fundamentals. Construction gods like will weston can only juggle forms like they do because their ability to control 2D proportion is hardwired into their brains and they don't have to practice it anymore.

Construction, anatomy and perspective are like riding a bike with no hands.

Controlling 2d proportion is riding a bike.

Gridding is using training wheels

Sight size is your dad running behind you to prevent falls while you learn to subconsciously maintain balance.