It’s easier to go primitive when we need it than to dredge up skill when we don’t have it.Stan Prokopenko is a San Diego based artist and former student/teacher at the Watts Atelier. Otherwise it’s guessing, which is fine for some pictures, not for a master of figure drawing.
She asked “the motive is to ensure depth and mass but does that not come with drawing?” Depth and mass come with understanding, through left-brain disciplines, how to track X, Y & Z lines. Regarding “you could develop the same thing through simply copying what you see”, I copied what I saw for a decade, and I was left without control (except in copying), and without the ability to invent. But you may be an artist who wants to work like Mary Blair or Eric Carle or someone who doesn’t need this. That’s something many artists from concept art to comic books to animation to fine-art painting want to do. Without this skill, it’s impossible to invent figures from imagination. Sprints improve stamina, lifting weight improves strength, robo bean improves your ability to visualize the torso as simple 3d forms. Yes, they could get better at basketball only by playing basketball, but specific things like stamina and strength could be improved much quicker with focused exercises. It is similar to a basketball player doing sprints and lifting weights. Yes, you could develop the same thing through simply copying what you see, but it will take much longer than by practicing a focused exercise. Good design involves a balance between simple forms and details. By repeating this you create a habit of identifying the major planes of the forms and keeping those apparent through the finished drawing.
It helps to construct the figure in the early stages of a drawing. This is an exercise to develop your ability to see the complex forms as simple 3d forms.
Am I being dense but I am not getting Robo Bean demo/theory….I understand the motive is to ensure depth and mass but does that not come with drawing, why bother? Did I miss a concept here, as I am just not getting it… I always love every session but this is missing me.
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