Uncomfortable

2022-11-08 16:12

As AutoModerator pointed out, this question isn't really suited to this subreddit. That said, Drawabox (the course this subreddit focuses on) specifically seeks to train students to approach perspective and 3D space in the intuitive manner you ascribed to Korea/Asia.

I believe that perspective instruction in general - or rather, its purpose - is very often misrepresented or misunderstood even by the people teaching it in schools. While perspective as a whole does teach us techniques we can use to draw 3D space, environment, objects, etc. to very specific, precise specifications, that is not really all that useful in the vast majority of applications, especially when you're talking about illustration and concept art. Hyper-accuracy isn't really all that important - though there are certainly places where employing the specific techniques and tools to solve specific, tricky perspective problems is quite handy.

The bulk of it however is not about teaching you specific tools and techniques, but rather having students perform exercises that drive them to think in three dimensions, and to better understand the relationships between how the marks are drawn on the page, and what they're meant to represent in 3D. The goal always comes back to developing that sense of intuition and underlying 3D spatial knowledge.

So, rather than viewing it as being taught differently in different cultures and regions, consider that they apply the same approach, but that they ultimately develop a better understanding of how it's meant to be applied in practice - something many instructors and schools, regardless of where it is you study, don't always grasp themselves.

For the sake of comparison, you may want to take a look at the late Norm Schureman, who is quite well known for formalizing the "Dynamic Sketching" approach at Art Center College of Design in Southern California, which itself has spread further through his student, Peter Han, who I had the brief pleasure of learning from myself. Peter Han was an associate of Kim Jung Gi, operating more recently under their Super Ani banner, but it was Norm who was his biggest influence, and he was incubated in Southern California.