Recently, I elected to attempt a rather large personal art project, but I know going in that I have very little training in art and thus my anatomy is horrific in general. Dare I risk looking like a doofus? Well, no, I could use references!
My brain went into a brief spasm of, "But then you didn't actually create all of it, now, did you?" Nor did I invent humans, develop the graphite for my pencils, write the scanner drivers, or create the setting in which my art would be set. Really, why get bogged down in the matter at this point?
There's pride in doing something without a reference; it's a mark of skill if the result is convincing. It is, however, in no way morally superior, or even the mark of a better artist. It just means you have a better time with anatomy from scratch, merely one part of a huge number of microskills that make up figure drawing. So, now I'm looking for references for this ungodly project. *grin*
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Date: 2006-05-23 07:00 am (UTC)Recently, I elected to attempt a rather large personal art project, but I know going in that I have very little training in art and thus my anatomy is horrific in general. Dare I risk looking like a doofus? Well, no, I could use references!
My brain went into a brief spasm of, "But then you didn't actually create all of it, now, did you?" Nor did I invent humans, develop the graphite for my pencils, write the scanner drivers, or create the setting in which my art would be set. Really, why get bogged down in the matter at this point?
There's pride in doing something without a reference; it's a mark of skill if the result is convincing. It is, however, in no way morally superior, or even the mark of a better artist. It just means you have a better time with anatomy from scratch, merely one part of a huge number of microskills that make up figure drawing. So, now I'm looking for references for this ungodly project. *grin*