Stuff I've Been Doing

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For the past couple of weeks I've been working with a cool program called Drawing the Human Figure from Your Mind.  It's been extremely helpful.  Since I started with art I've always had issues with people.  There are so many little finicky things that you can get wrong with them.  So I've always had to look at a person to be able to draw him or her.  But this program works with a different way of thinking.  Instead of drawing what you see in front of you and thinking in 2D, you construct the human figure in a very scientific way, so that you can then recreate it in any angle you want.  This process helps your mind to shift from a 2D approach to art to a 3D approach.

Thinking in 2D is fine when all you want to do is paint or draw whatever you are looking at, even if you want to mix it up or change it, you have a reference.  But to truly master something so that you can draw it at any time, from any angle, without a reference, you have to change your thinking to 3D, so that you can think of the object you want to draw as a three dimensional thing, and not just as different values. It's been a hard shift at times, but I'm starting to get the hang of it.  The picture I'm showing is of a sketch of the muscles of the torso and how that in turn affects the way the torso looks with the skin and everything.  I want to apply this "constructive", 3D approach to drawing in more of what I draw.  It really makes me wonder why they didn't talk about this in any of the art classes I've taken.  But, maybe farther on in the program we'll get more into it.