Thursday, January 27, 2022

I've got a long way ahead of me

So I did the math (probably shouldn't have) and according to my current study routine, it will take nearly 12 more weeks to completely finish the linear perspective master course. My brain isn't tired of perspective yet but it's starting to feel a hint of it. I calculated 12 more weeks by assuming I will watch four lessons a day and then dividing how many videos were left by four (322/4). 

Four isn't too bad considering I've been watching five per day regularly, but I don't think I can do that for much longer, it's mentally fatiguing when I hit the fifth video. During the video I'm just thinking when it will be over, checking the time occasionally. And even then, by the time I'm done with it, I just don't really feel like spending that much time on art afterwards. I've realized that four videos is my happy number, I rarely feel negative during any part of it.

The videos themselves are on average, I would say, 18 minutes long each (it used to be 15), some hit 22 minutes, some only 16. You would think it wouldn't take me 3 hours to get 5 videos done in a day, but I often go back through the video and re-watch, or just pause it so I can draw and follow along the teacher. In case it wasn't made clear before, I draw roughly the same things the teachers do in the drawing lessons step by step, it helps me learn the material.

Also, I started week 4 today of vis-com, and thinks are getting really interesting, not to mention difficult. It's so strange, whenever I draw a form, I can imagine the contour lines on it just fine, but as soon as I draw another form through it my brain just goes ???????. It can't find where the contour (form) on one form stops and goes around the other, it can't mix and match. Sometimes I do this well, often I do not. But I do think if I learn this properly it will be a huge step in my drawing capabilities, so that has inspired me lately.

I'm also going to put an emphasis on straight lines, ellipses, and "deliberate-markmaking" so that my sketches just look cleaner and better in general.


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