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Thanks! I'm glad you liked it

I think breaks are important because they help change your mindset. If you're emotionally wrapped up by something, it's much harder to be honest and critical. So taking a break gives you some space to kind of cool down, so you can come back to your work with a much clearer head and then be more critical and honest about it. Also, breaks are extremely important in general while studying or doing hard tasks. The effort you put into focusing takes up energy in your brain, it sort of builds up stress. Taking a break acts as if your brain is a battery and you're allowing it to recharge. If you want to learn more I'd look into "Cognitive Load" c:

I get you completely. I would read that book over and over, look at Prokos videos and it just did not make any sense to me lmao (it still doesn't) I ended up just having to change it. up and start drawing a box to measure out the planes. I think really thats the key, just, adapting it to what feels good for you! I know for example there's the 'Asaro' head, which isn't necessarily another method, but a really good way of understanding the shapes of the head.

Biggest problem with loomis that people make is that they measure from top of head instead of hairline. That’s seldom spoken about, but it’s the reason why your heads might be too long.

Try "the Reilly head" it looks crazy complicated, but it imitates muscle structures rather than Loomis which is more geometric

I haven't heard of that! I think I'll check it out it sounds far more usable to me

Why not just draw what you see?

Thank you! I see most of the progression in the nose honestly lmao

@@ragemachinist good summary! Thanks for writing this out c:

You're welcome! I'm glad its useful! Good luck on your portrait drawing!

I'm glad they resonated! c:

I hear you, it can be scary to jump into it especially if you know you'll make some mistakes, and it's also scary to learn to embrace those mistakes, but! along the journey you'll get better and better, more comfy with error!

Thanks! Absolutely, honestly the most crucial thing I've learnt so far is to bend the rules even when making a study, it held me back a lot too - made things more unfun for me and then I avoided it.

Which books and online materials? Please share....I am on the same journey

It really is!

It depends what you are learning! For books, I recommend: Andrew Loomis How to draw the Head and Hands Andrew Loomis Figure drawing for all its worth James gurney Color and Light As for content like videos here on youtube Proko are amazing. Marco Bucci is excellent too Another free resource that will really help your understanding of 3D space is DrawaBox (google it and you'll see the website! its truly excellent!) Good luck on your Art Journey and lmk if you need more recommendations

@@NexyiaArt big thanks

Why do you think that?

You can use that definition of self taught, but it's your own. Autodidact is just the greek translation of self teaching, it does not mean "to use no outside resources to learn" it means to learn without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

@@NexyiaArt TH-cam tutorials are online classes in a way😅

​​@@mykellederickpalad7883 While I can see what you're saying, and you’re right when you say that they're essentially online classes, you have to consider that a course is what we pay for when it comes to art school. And, as you already know, they're made up of more than several classes containing different methods and topics. That's a huge difference in comparison to sitting down at home, opening TH-cam and choosing an erray of videos that might only give you very limited information that allows you to scratch just the surface of, let's say, anatomy. The legs? Arms? Eyes? Muscle placement and bone structure? As a beginner, it's overwhelming and difficult to know where to start and how to conduct the way you study as well as practice, not to mention- effectively. There's only you, the student, and that person's video you're watching that doesn't know who you are and can't exactly push you in the right direction like a teacher and mentor would. So, I mean, in the end, you are self-taught because the free resources you have would still mean nothing if you don't know how to understand any of it. You're teaching your own self how to do that and I think that should be validated (as a self-taught artist). :)

Do you think being self-taught means just magically knowing everything with no resources whatsoever? That's just not realistic for anything. Having to research by yourself, find resources by yourself, make a schedule by yourself, learn how to critique yourself and keep yourself accountable, etc... It _is_ being self-taught. It's _way_ more independent than having a teacher telling you everything you need to do day-by-day.

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Thanks for letting me know! I'll be more aware of it in future. If there's anything you'd like me to go over, let me know!

That doesn't mean you can't teach yourself, plenty of professional artists out there that are self taught

Absolutely! When I was at Art School we had weekly Crit sessions as well as just generally always bouncing around helping each other. But, this doesn't mean you can't find feedback from others while being self taught! There are also ways to give yourself critique. Active feedback definitely exists! In areas where you can judge objective accuracy - like perspective or proportion, you can always find creative ways to critique yourself.

That's a really good idea! I may try that myself, a good way of tracking time.

Thank you so much!

Awesome! It's crazy how the right practice can drastically improve your art, or any skill really. Keep at it! It's exciting to hear other artists improve c:

Thank you! I can only hope to reign for almost 1500 years just as the Romans did.

Nice! I'm happy it helped you!

Thank you! I'm glad you found it too, I hope you continue to make art AND do youtube! c:

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