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I've recently checked in a drawing rehab concluding that I can't let my awful drawing continue any longer and that I have to get it together. It took me long enough but I realize that drawing's all I've got and that my whole future depends on it. Crappy drawing is crappy and would only incur humiliation from the viewer. It's a bit depressing though; I took an Anatomy subject twice (flunking it the first time) and yet I realize I didn't learn anything. I wasted those years in college only to realize now that I haven't learned how to draw correctly. I know the terminologies and stuff, like the 8-heads measurement (which other professors say is inaccurate for us Filipinos 'cause we're small..) and foreshortening, the skeletal and muscular systems, center of gravity, etc, etc. I know all those but I haven't applied any of it to my drawings and draw according to how I want it to look, not mindful of its accuracy to the real thing. Maybe it is true.. maybe being exposed to anime blurred my view on correct anatomy. I can, however, still argue that anime artists do in fact take anatomy into account, and that they've mastered it before being able to draw those exaggerated poses and un-proportioned body parts. Anime is just famous for it's trademark extreme unrealism (is that a word?) and that why it garnered criticisms but I do think that those artists should have an ample amount of knowledge regarding the accepted standards of anatomy before adding their own flair into it. With that in mind, I can't consider my being exposed to anime while I was growing up to be the reason why I'm struggling with drawing right now; it's all my fault for insisting everything should be how I want them to be.
In a way.... I am like Nodame. Hmm. I didn't give a shit about how things should be done until I realize that I can't go on doing everything my way. And according to a professor of mine, we don't draw for our selves--we draw for the audience and they have to appreciate it for it to be considered as an art. Hmm. :ponders:
So now I'm going back to basics--I'm re-learning how to draw all over again. I completely ditched my "own style" since it only involves the head and nothing more. I control myself not to draw any detailed busts/heads at the moment and focus on full-body drawings, applying the points given by Mr. Loomis (c/o Nine-san. Thanks.) As much as I want to take things slowly, I somehow want to be "geared up" for the incoming term which is a few weeks from now, so I have until then to do this.
When I'm through with this or when I can decently draw people I'll draw man-pr0n. I'm not kidding. It's the first in my list of "things-I-want-to-draw-but-can't-because-of-my-fscking-crappy-drawing" (long title) and actually one of the things that pushed me to re-learn all this. ..since I....attempted to do one before and it was...."horrible" is an understatement. O____O;;
Gah. It's already 4am!! Sleep before study (only applicable during break). Dewa matta!
In a way.... I am like Nodame. Hmm. I didn't give a shit about how things should be done until I realize that I can't go on doing everything my way. And according to a professor of mine, we don't draw for our selves--we draw for the audience and they have to appreciate it for it to be considered as an art. Hmm. :ponders:
So now I'm going back to basics--I'm re-learning how to draw all over again. I completely ditched my "own style" since it only involves the head and nothing more. I control myself not to draw any detailed busts/heads at the moment and focus on full-body drawings, applying the points given by Mr. Loomis (c/o Nine-san. Thanks.) As much as I want to take things slowly, I somehow want to be "geared up" for the incoming term which is a few weeks from now, so I have until then to do this.
When I'm through with this or when I can decently draw people I'll draw man-pr0n. I'm not kidding. It's the first in my list of "things-I-want-to-draw-but-can't-because-of-my-fscking-crappy-drawing" (long title) and actually one of the things that pushed me to re-learn all this. ..since I....attempted to do one before and it was...."horrible" is an understatement. O____O;;
Gah. It's already 4am!! Sleep before study (only applicable during break). Dewa matta!