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The lasso tool? Maybe it's the same, but in the description he writes about what he is doing in this video. Check it out at the three dots.

He can’t. His anki deck features scanned images from copyrighted books

The heads are all from imagination for this, but you could apply the same concept if you wanted to. The Tom Fox book teaches you how to construct the figure from boxes with certain proportions, so if you can draw the head box, you can subdivide it as he does to make a general head. Moving beyond that now, I am trying to draw such a proportioned head as an outline like Kim Jung Gi would do, which involves thinking about the box and its perspective, but not actually drawing any guidelines or anything. I also practice this using the references from imaginary angles, and it's even harder 🥲 but I'm slowly getting the hang of it.

@@10.000hrs Thank you so much for the response! i am excited to start up my own study journey! Keep up the amazing work and best of luck moving forward! You got this!

Thank you friend! 💖

I'm pretty sure that's the reference.

@@JoshuaZXL oh dayum, he did such a great job I didn't even notice the subtle differences.

Hello! That's a good question! Honestly, the anki program I use really tells me what to work on that day, and so that's generally what I train, and generally the exerciseand what to draw or paint is dictated by that. That's where the general drawing ideas come from. The lesson this time was on value grouping, and so I paint an image by breaking it down to 5 grey values. Over time, I try and increase the difficulty and find new ways of expanding on exercises that are in the books. For example, this little robot I now try and blend the values together in places at the end, going beyond the exercise requirements, to get a more realistic result. The reason I picked a robot is because I like robots 😅 but also it's a hard thing to draw or paint, so it's a good difficulty for pushing me to the edge of my comfort zone, and I am trying to learn a little about designing cool details at the moment so it helps with that a little. Last time, a few days ago, it was a pear, and so that was soft and organic. I did pretty good on that so what's next? What's harder and more of a challenge? Robot 🤖 Of course, another option is to just work on a weakness. If you personally feel like you are bad at drawing hands, then perhaps you can spend some time working on that for a few days, or every other day. This is how I know what cards to bring into circulation for the algorithm to suggest for me. At the moment it's anatomy, and a lot on rendering, like you see here today.

All of these are from imagination, which I classify as distinct to memory. I construct them in 3D perspective on the page, based on my knowledge of perspective, head proportions, and anatomy. To make that distinction clearer, I have never drawn a head from this angle so many times I have it memorised, I literally construct the forms and anatomy I know from a specific camera angle, and can do it from any angle because I understand the form fairly well now. Hope that makes sense. More recently I'm trying to draw these as silhouettes, that is draw the outline with no construction lines, like Kim Jung Gi would do, but I still find that very difficult.

Oh yeah haha, he lost his fight and an eye.

Thank you! It's still hard for me to actually render these organic, soft objects but at least I can see the values a bit better now.

I was unaware this existed but it sounds amazing and I'll give it a look! I would love a way to not have to scan the books in haha. Thanks so much for sharing this! ❤️❤️❤️

That's actually a really logical way of thinking about this problem! I haven't ever really thought about it like that before but it makes sense. I think the thing I struggle with isn't so much things like picking a camera angle but more the actual design and details of a thing and making it look like it would actually mechanically function, and just has a decent level of visual interest. I'll definitely try what you suggest out though and see what difference it makes. Thanks for explaining it so well! I appreciate the help! 💕✨️

@@10.000hrs My example might have been a bit clinical, in reality the process is often bit more organic especially with a lot of practice. Going back to the example, since the setting is a cockpit we can start thinking about what goes in a cockpit and maybe a bit about the purpose of the mech itself. Every mech needs a power source so you dedicate a bit of the control panel to that. So maybe a screen or dials, some switches or levers. Basically decoration, all the little building blocks you can pull out of visual memory. You've gone from a very vague idea to something manageable. The same process applies to mechanical functioning of the mech. Once you have a bit of a story you can work on connecting everything together via the basic parts of engineering/mechanical anatomy. like hinges, pulleys, hydraulics, motors etc. Again this is just the foundation it's probably going to take several iterations to find the design language that works for you aesthetically. It's basically the same process as painting. We start by blocking things in, this acts as a reference and helps us refine the problem space down to something more manageable. Each layer narrows things down even further. At some point we will have enough of a foundation that we can let intuition fill in the rest of the dots. In essence this is just the creative process. I think a lot of it is just figuring out how to work with your imagination. For me this is story telling. where everything is interconnected and has a purpose on some level.

Awesome, I can see how that would be very helpful. Thanks again, I am definitely going to try this and see how it helps me!

Glad you find it useful! 😊💕

I am happy it makes you happy 😊

There is actually a subscriber who has commented before and suffers from this condition! He said that he literally cannot draw without reference, but was determined, and so just uses reference all the time. I'm fortunate not to have that condition, but because I'm trying to draw specifically from imagination, a lot of what I do is related specifically to that. I found the guy quire inspiring, because he wouldn't let it stop him. There is a way around every problem if we look hard enough 💪 thanks for raising this point, it's not something that gets talked about enough in art circles 💕

Thanks! It's lovely to know that people find them useful and inspiring. I really appreciate you following along ❤️

These are actually pretty basic chalk and soft brushes, but they specifically come from a brush pack that is by Max Grecke on Gumroad. I think they cost about $5 and are part of a tutorial about painting an orc if I remember right.

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Well, you figured that out a lot quicker than I did 😅 I couldn't figure out how after drawing since a kid I literally couldn't draw anything, when you see kids who are like 15 drawing crazy stuff from imagination. I went right back to square one and started totally from scratch too. It is very humbling indeed ❤️ thanks for sharing your experience!

I think it applies to pretty much everything. I use it for a lot of things, and have found it very intriguing. Physical, procedural skills like art and sports are the hardest to learn, but it ultimately just amounts to repetition, and good critical analysis of what you are doing to better direct your efforts next time. For just memorising facts, this is the absolute ultimate learning method. You could memorise an entire language very easily. Lots of people ask for the cards, but because they are book scans, it's kind of illegal to share them, but I am making my own deck, basically distilling everything in them, available for free later this year. It's going to take a while to make but I want to get it correct. There will also be a discord server for people to train together ❤️

@10.000hrs What I’ve taken from your approach is the idea that art is a skill requiring mastery of various elements. By creating Anki cards for each aspect, I can practice, evaluate what’s lacking in a piece (e.g., perspective), drill that specific skill, and repeat the process to improve each time Ah, I kind of figured that was the case, but I’m really glad to hear that seeing an Anki deck in your style is still on the cards-no pun intended!

Thank you very much! It's definitely worth experimenting with. I think a lot of this is finding out what works best for you personally, but I have found this makes me able to develop at a steady pace by doing things little and often, and not break my back by having to draw for 13 hours a day. Even olympic athletes don't train that hard! Blind drawing is really good, I do a lot of that within the context of whatever subject I am studying. I more recently started taking a reference, and drawing it from an imaginary new viewpoint. That really forces you to pay attention to how it's all constructed because you are reconstructing it from a different perspective 🤯 took me a while to figure out but I think it's a great next step 💪

Good question. I wonder too. I think at some point in your journey you will start to see things as a whole and you can also draw them as a whole. At the moment I’m practicing drawing head shapes, but I can’t draw the eyes or the noise or the mouth yet. For me is only heads for now.

It's not absolutely proven, but when you switch to different subjects it's called interleaving, and is supposed to actually be better than studying a single subject. I do this myself and have never found it to negatively impact my own progress. I actually use Anki to study a lot of things every day and it's fine. It would be interesting to compare results with someone who just studied a single thing. Depends on how many interests you have and things you care about developing! You can always try and weight your training so that one thing perhaps gets more emphasis for a while.

@@10.000hrs This is an interesting topic. Maybe worth a video? My personal philosophy is that all roads lead to Rome and whatever you enjoy more (concentrating on one thing vs switching) is probably more important than what is most 'efficient'.

It might be! I think you are probably correct and that any gains are probably only slight. It might just be something as simple as a change of focus makes you pay attention a little better or something.

@@Benthecopyboy I personally follow this philosophy. Kim Jung Gi always emphasized that he loved to draw all the time and that’s what mainly got him to his level (other than mastering observation & perspective).

This is from a book called How to Draw by Scott Robertson

@@10.000hrs thank you

Wooaah! Thanks for this! I'll definitely give it a watch and see what I can pick up! 💫💪

No problem friend, glad you found it useful 💖👍

That's really interesting and not something I had considered before 🤔 it makes perfect sense as there is really only a limited tolerance for the placement of any line within the perspective framework he is using for it to make sense. I can't say I'm there yet myself but that will be an interesting thing to think about while drawing. Thanks for sharing! 💕

@@10.000hrs of course! It was helpful to me when i heard it so thought you might enjoy

deep observational skills are severely underrated! its THE best way to draw!