Happy to say that I did a good amount of studying today, about 7 hours worth of work. Would've gotten more done but I spent a bit of time taking breaks, errands like groceries and changing my car oil, and getting a workout in (which went well too). Overall nothing but productivity today.
These are the results of a few hours worth of studying Framed Ink, most of them thought up by me, but a few are straight out copies from the book. All of them based on concepts from the book of course, I'm not that smart yet.
Reading this book is one thing, copying and understanding the explanations, and coming up with your compositions based on top of them are another. I'm sure anyone could open this book, read the explanations, go "yeah, that sounds right, makes sense", and never attempt to apply it right after reading it. It's what I did when I found out about this book many years ago, and I'm 100% positive that I did not grasp them the way I do now.
By no means am I saying that I just suddenly got good at composition, but I understand a lot more than I used to for sure. 100% because I worked the ideas out in my own way and found that it was much more complicated than just understanding the effect of a composition. What I learned now compared to back then was how to make the composition, not just understand the effect of it.
Each of these were difficult, no matter how simple they seem. It probably took me 15-30 minutes each just to rack my brain on how to arrange the shapes, but I think they will pay off. Maybe I just feel like I know more, but we'll see pretty soon if that's the case.
Also, on top of these, I worked on my perspective as well. Took a break from it for a couple of days because things were starting to get difficult without the rulers and compass, but those came in earlier today and got back on track.
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