We're told to work from photo reference. Does that mean drawing from life is not allowed? Should I assume the same answer when future lessons mention photo reference.
Also, when filling out the final dark to light transition boxes, am I right in assuming we're still copying our references directly, not creating our own textures with what we've learned?
You can work from life if you prefer. Anywhere I say we're working from photo reference, assume that working from real life objects is also allowed.
As for your second question, we're not exactly copying the references directly in the gradient, but we are pulling information directly from our references. We however are in control of how we arrange that information, and how we choose to draw the shadows cast by the forms pulled from said references.
Thanks that clears things up.
Rapid Viz is a book after mine own heart, and exists very much in the same spirit of the concepts that inspired Drawabox. It's all about getting your ideas down on the page, doing so quickly and clearly, so as to communicate them to others. These skills are not only critical in design, but also in the myriad of technical and STEM fields that can really benefit from having someone who can facilitate getting one person's idea across to another.
Where Drawabox focuses on developing underlying spatial thinking skills to help facilitate that kind of communication, Rapid Viz's quick and dirty approach can help students loosen up and really move past the irrelevant matters of being "perfect" or "correct", and focus instead on getting your ideas from your brain, onto the page, and into someone else's brain as efficiently as possible.
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