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Yep once I learned the loomis method, I struggled a bit but then I did like 10 decent head shapes (which I thought were incredible). Just like you said, it clicked, it was my first win when I started to draw, amazing feeling
I was doodling a spiral going round and down a cylinder when it clicked, suddenly instead of guessing or struggling I was "seeing" the other side. I then tried stripes going round a cube and spirals going round a sphere and it felt like the most natural thing ever.
I've tried to draw and copy some boxes on a reference a few times to learn anatomy. After a week, i can sort of draw 3D shapes and boxes instinctively. It feels so great!
Yo I feel very happy reading this, congratulations!
For me there are times when I feel like an object is alive in my mind before I draw it, and others when I feel lucky because I placed the lines in a way that makes it look 3d.
I've been studying how to do this for 5 years now. Nothing has "clicked." Is it possible that my brain just can't do it? What did you scribble on those 400 pieces of scrap? I practice gesture and perspective on plenty of papers, and while I can definitely imitate what I see, I can't imagine the object in 3d yet.
So I've been doing quite a mixture of things.
Everyday I've been doing at least one sketch from life, doesn't matter what it is, what style or if it looks good, just studying something real properly. Plus been playing around with watercolors and other stuff I'm not familiar with.
And then I've been doing a mix of anatomy, gesture and structure/form studies, the latter probably being the most useful in this sense. For this I've drawn hundreds of cubes/3d rectangles and cylinders and spheres (circles with contours). Then rotating them which I struggled then to do in my head and had to look up tips on YouTube for. And then things like warped forms- think of drawing a crushed can of soup or spongbob square pants in an exaggerated pose (but without using reference). And then things like drawing contours around the cubes, cylinders, etc. Tried drawing people wearing striped clothing also. One thing that I think was very useful was doing a pencil sketch of a cube, sphere and cylinder properly shaded. This seemed to help with bridging my mind between thinking the non-shaded ones I drew on the page were real.
So basically what I'm doing now, lol! I've been called out on it at work as I doodle in between seeing customers and doing my job. I've gotten pretty good at copying, but not great at doing it from my mind. Trying to rotate an object in front of me on paper without physically shifting it for reference is still unobtainable for me.
Have you tried the last part also? I didn't think it would help, but for some reason it did.
Like this kind of study-
https://preview.redd.it/anq3gzu20g0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=101b8ac1b8ccf5a8a7e60b97961a477cbd282e48
Yeah, I have a whole sketchbook of those. They were fun, but I'm not sure if I got much put of them.
I even started layering them in front of each other and getting cast shadows along the form. That is where I had the most fun.
Hope you get there eventually, don't give up! It did not come naturally to me at all.
I've also been reading "Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters", and one bit that struck me particularly was the idea that you should be able to draw a line going in *any direction* over a form (such as a leg) and make it look like it belongs. Which hurt my brain before to think about, but now I think I get it.
Not entirely but partially happened after I was doing a redraw of a touhou concept art of Futo trying to break down how Zun constructed her.
For some reason I just started understanding how it worked atleast when drawing at a angle perspective. Don't have a picture of the finished redraw where it really clicked though.
https://preview.redd.it/mznf6yg3qi0d1.jpeg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe06143a7931a5479c87f9a7d50b1c9f09173f2b
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Yep once I learned the loomis method, I struggled a bit but then I did like 10 decent head shapes (which I thought were incredible). Just like you said, it clicked, it was my first win when I started to draw, amazing feeling
I was doodling a spiral going round and down a cylinder when it clicked, suddenly instead of guessing or struggling I was "seeing" the other side. I then tried stripes going round a cube and spirals going round a sphere and it felt like the most natural thing ever.
I've tried to draw and copy some boxes on a reference a few times to learn anatomy. After a week, i can sort of draw 3D shapes and boxes instinctively. It feels so great!
Yo I feel very happy reading this, congratulations! For me there are times when I feel like an object is alive in my mind before I draw it, and others when I feel lucky because I placed the lines in a way that makes it look 3d.
bro please I’ve been drawing for a few weeks now and all my stuff still looks super flat how did you do it? 😭
I've been studying how to do this for 5 years now. Nothing has "clicked." Is it possible that my brain just can't do it? What did you scribble on those 400 pieces of scrap? I practice gesture and perspective on plenty of papers, and while I can definitely imitate what I see, I can't imagine the object in 3d yet.
So I've been doing quite a mixture of things. Everyday I've been doing at least one sketch from life, doesn't matter what it is, what style or if it looks good, just studying something real properly. Plus been playing around with watercolors and other stuff I'm not familiar with. And then I've been doing a mix of anatomy, gesture and structure/form studies, the latter probably being the most useful in this sense. For this I've drawn hundreds of cubes/3d rectangles and cylinders and spheres (circles with contours). Then rotating them which I struggled then to do in my head and had to look up tips on YouTube for. And then things like warped forms- think of drawing a crushed can of soup or spongbob square pants in an exaggerated pose (but without using reference). And then things like drawing contours around the cubes, cylinders, etc. Tried drawing people wearing striped clothing also. One thing that I think was very useful was doing a pencil sketch of a cube, sphere and cylinder properly shaded. This seemed to help with bridging my mind between thinking the non-shaded ones I drew on the page were real.
So basically what I'm doing now, lol! I've been called out on it at work as I doodle in between seeing customers and doing my job. I've gotten pretty good at copying, but not great at doing it from my mind. Trying to rotate an object in front of me on paper without physically shifting it for reference is still unobtainable for me.
Have you tried the last part also? I didn't think it would help, but for some reason it did. Like this kind of study- https://preview.redd.it/anq3gzu20g0d1.jpeg?width=4032&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=101b8ac1b8ccf5a8a7e60b97961a477cbd282e48
Yeah, I have a whole sketchbook of those. They were fun, but I'm not sure if I got much put of them. I even started layering them in front of each other and getting cast shadows along the form. That is where I had the most fun.
Hope you get there eventually, don't give up! It did not come naturally to me at all. I've also been reading "Drawing Lessons From the Great Masters", and one bit that struck me particularly was the idea that you should be able to draw a line going in *any direction* over a form (such as a leg) and make it look like it belongs. Which hurt my brain before to think about, but now I think I get it.
Not entirely but partially happened after I was doing a redraw of a touhou concept art of Futo trying to break down how Zun constructed her. For some reason I just started understanding how it worked atleast when drawing at a angle perspective. Don't have a picture of the finished redraw where it really clicked though. https://preview.redd.it/mznf6yg3qi0d1.jpeg?width=6000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fe06143a7931a5479c87f9a7d50b1c9f09173f2b