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The most obvious thing seems to be, those who can ALREADY draw a bit find the book to be not helpful, very basic, and somewhat misleading... People who cannot
by apalmer 13y ago
The most obvious thing seems to be, those who can ALREADY draw a bit find the book to be not helpful, very basic, and somewhat misleading...
People who cannot draw at all seem to get a lot out of the book however...
I think it comes down to a being a human photocopier is an immensely important part of drawing, but its also a phase that you pass out of on your way to becoming a good artist. I remember me and my friends used to spend hours doing line for line copies of comic book drawings when we were 10-12 years old, its a natural part of the process i think...
- muraiki 13y agoI found the book valuable in that, as someone who is not particularly visually oriented, it helped teach me "how to see."
- tripzilch 13y ago> me and my friends used to spend hours doing line for line copies of comic book drawings when we were 10-12 years old, its a natural part of the process i think... Dunno. I strongly believe it really depends. I never did that, for exactly the reasons other people lay out in this thread, "but what if I want to draw something else?" (actually "but I want to draw something else, this drawing already exists anyway, why copy it"). Some of my friends did like to copy drawings. A lot of them never progressed past that, and some did. It really depends.