This course is awesome, but I am not sure how it will help me in a long run
12:20 PM, Saturday January 25th 2025
So, I am currently in the last exercise of lesson 2 and still cannot get the sense of aligning to me.
Don't get me wrong, I clearly understand the purpose of the exercises and got benefits from it. But I have several concerns:
- The way its teaching is correct in a sense of "learning how to correctly learn from source". In another words, this course aims to teach us how to use it to construct from our observation, not for actual creative art expression.
- How this course may help me learning to draw? Is it just set of tools for long-run future, that will enrich imagination and reshape itself (adapt) the way I see? Or it meant to break down old habits replacing with better ones?
- Actual creative expression (in my opinion) is a flow state of play with complete objects in imagination space. Real-time forming, logical ray- and overlap- tracing. The sense of scene is alive and captured in a moment separated by each object. In other words, each object has its own place and reason why its placed and bent while being standalone and partly interacting with other objects. For example: Apple on a windowsill. Every object has its own history, inluding placed apple. They can exist separately, if removed/picked up from a scene and this does not break initial mood from a windowsill or apple or whatever is there. So, artwork is a captured coincidence in a moment. Maybe you noticed, but its impossible pre-render the scene (draw from an idea) with simple objects. There simply no time for them, as artwork develops dynamically, not by "capturing"
- Do anyone experienced this or its just my "excuse" to not draw from simple forms? Is it something I've believed in, but totally wrong (even including fact that's how I was drawing before trying drawabox)?
- I cannot see any benefit to my habitual workflow so far. Additionally, it broke my desire to draw from imagination. Not completely, but its way-way harder to start without any instructions or ideas nowadays
- Is it normal? Is it something wrong with my perception of art? Or its just a matter of time and practice? If yes, how long approximately it will take to "blend"? Or it will be separate ways to draw, occasionally interwine with "old style"?
My background:
I never had anyone as an art teacher before (maybe in early childhood, don't remember). Started to draw in Jan 2023 digitally without references (only if I'm really stuck with understanding, happened 4 times during last year). Started drawabox course in Oct 2023. Did not submit any homework and not planning to.
Why I am sharing all of this:
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I am genuinely confused with my art journey
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I cannot understand why other people learning faster/better than me (outcomes divided by their art experience)
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Paper and digital feel completely separate from one another
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I am not sure if constructional way is good way for making art (at least for me)
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I am not sure what to do and where to go.
Regardless of an answer, I'll complete everything till lesson 6. Than reconsider my view
Big thanks for reading and replying :p