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How do you guys 'see' what you draw?
As in what kind of mentality do you perceive your subject?
I was talking to an art professor and he told me to draw what I saw and not what I perceived to be there? As in, if I saw a ellipse at 45 degrees, he wanted me to draw the figure as I physically see it and not think "oh, that's a ellipse at 45 degrees, let me use my knowledge of how to draw an ellipse coupled with my vision to draw it."
That seems really fuckey to me.
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>>2625365
Hes right
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>>2625365
Nah its true draw what you see, find what you like in life even the little things like a hand gesture or veins on a hand or foot and put it into your work that to me is important but really important to replicate what you see in life aswell.
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>>2625365
That sounds about right.
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>>2625384
Your eyes arent developed yet.
You seem to think that percieving the form and drawing what is actually there are disconnected. You percieve what isnt actually there while he is encouraging you to build a strong visual library grounded in reality so that you may stylize successfully.
Fun duh men talls
Tbh this seems more like a "guys pls validate me my professor is dumb" thread.
Go do some still lifes
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>>2625395
No, the man's a fucking god at painting. He teaches at UVA. I'm not questioning his ability at all, I just wanted to know if he just assumed that maybe I'm a beginner who symbol draws or didn't properly articulate or something.
He seemed like he was advising the disconnect you're talking about.
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>>2625365
Read pic related, if your school has a library then it should be there, it deals entirely with the exact problem that you're having.
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>>2625435
yes he means you are symbol drawing
painters squint and see shapes of color, not things, then after the block in they polish their stuff
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>>2625435
Go search up Niccolaides. If you have access to a live model there's no point in drawing the Villpu way which is what I'm assuming that you're doing. I made the same mistake for the longest time of constructing all of my figures from scratch on the page and ended up with newsprint pads of what was basically the same proportioned figure every session.
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