Back to the drawing grind it is, VisCom has been fun lately but perspective is still as dry as sand. Got a lot of drawing done today, around 6-7 hours. Even went back and fixed up a face drawing I made that was really terrible. I made it recently too but I guess I was just having a bad art day or just stupid tired, or both (not unlikely).
The first image are some VisCom exercises from the book "Rapid Viz". It's a fairly old book, published around the 1990's, but was recommended by Peter Han to an audience of a livestream. I wasn't a part of it though, I was catching the recorded version on youtube. Anyways, I checked the book out online and a free preview had a couple of the exercises on it, and that's what the first photo of the post is about. Something crazy about the book though, just as I was about to skip an exercise from the book, the author literally put a message in at the end of the exercise saying "If you are tempted to skip this exercise, don't!"
If an author can catch me thinking about skipping an exercise right when I'm thinking about it, you bet your ass I'm going to do it.
And I'm glad I did, it was the hardest exercise yet, even though he said it was just for fun. Which in turn really made myself think, "Why am I making the fun things difficult?" Which verbalized a lot with some of my recent struggles with art. This book made me challenge my thinking so much into the first chapter that I'm really hyped about reading the rest of it, so I'm going to try and find a copy around the internet tomorrow. There's no kindle version, but I prefer reading books from paper anyways.
Below is a sticky note with my new studying schedule, to prevent this post from taking an hour to read I'll explain why I revised it tomorrow.
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