Thread 7786457

>just draw 5000+ drawings like I tell you and then you'll be good
Is he right?

if you draw whatever that shitty drawing is on the cover 5000 times then that will be your skill level

Has any amateur/youtube grifter ever finished this? I remember the recommended schedule is insane. And he wants you to do it with life nude models anyways.

>>7786457 (OP)
You'll no doubt get better. He's essentially making a course for you, you don't even really need to follow his methods, you could just use another book to learn what he wants you to for the allotted times.

So if you want to do a drawing course, this probably wouldn't be a bad choice; though like the anon above said, I haven't really heard anyone talk about going through the entirety of the schedule.

>>7786492
>I remember the recommended schedule is insane
It's not that crazy, just some 400 hours of scheduled drawing.

>>7786457 (OP)
Well if you do 3 hour quick sketch sessions
36 models in a 3 hour block if you was to do that for head and figure say 72 a week

72 x 52 weeks = 3744 pictures it wouldn't take that long if you have the attention span more than a peanut.

Longer sketches time will increase it's very doable

>>7786457 (OP)
Filtered by the very first exercise. How am I supposed to spend 30 mins blind contour drawing?

I mildly alter the way I do gestures for this and i drop the frequency by 5-10 poses per sitting. So instead of 60 poses in a day i'll do 40 with a differnt method. I still do the "no lifting the pencil off the paper"bit for the most part, but I do look at the model and hug the contours at a certain point in the gesture

The other exercises I did so far, I just do them 2 or 3 times to see if i can grasp what im supposed to get out of it. If i feel that im wasting my time with any given exercise, im just not doing it. The contour drawing was fine for the experience, but It's not something im going to grind

I'm probably retarded here but no way people are trying to learn from a guy who paints like this right? Am I mistaken and this is someone else's art?

Why wouldnt you just learn from Loomis or Hampton? You could do atelier stuff too like Jeff Watts too but those are significantly harder if you have no knowledge.

>>7786457 (OP)
who put400 hours into this book when you could put 400 hours into any other book, I think you'll get a lot more improvement putting that time into vilppu, huston, hampton, loomis, even fucking hogarth than putting it into this. nicolaides a shit.

>>7786848
this board is full of retards

>>7786457 (OP)
I'm at 4999 and I don't see any progress yet. I'm afraid to go do the last one and realize I've just been wasting my time here.

>>7786457 (OP)
An absolute beg trap. The exercises don't even make sense

I'm pretty sure marshall vandruff constantly shits on this book

>>7787099
>An absolute beg trap
More like a beg filter, the book requires you do sit and draw for 3 hours a day for almost a year

>>7787502
Drawing 3 hours a day is great, but those exercises are just going to make you grind your gears in vain. That time is best spent drawing what you want.

>>7787666
>That time is best spent drawing what you want.
I'd put a caveat in that, and say you should be pushing yourself as well, otherwise your wheels are just spinning in place.

It's likely why this guy's schedule isn't too bad, because you'll be getting better rather than staying comfortable doing what you want.

best advice is to read what he's saying he wants you to learn/experience from a particular exercise and then slot in something that works better for that. There's enough tuts out there.

Blind contours are an interesting experience to have a few times, but you certainly dont need to do more than a handful of them to get the point. Gestures are best done a different way than what nicolaides describes and I also think that they only really serve a purpose when used as an undersketch for a proper croquis/drawing. So after the quick scribblies, actually go on to draw a proper sketch on top.

I also improved a decent bit by drawing along with hide channel's croquis instead of just doing gesture squigglies that dont make sense to any onlooker or even myself a week after I drew them. Just use his book as a general outline for your personal curriculum

>>7786457 (OP)
Drawing over and over won't help you improve much, studying art and referencing will.

>>7786816
slow the fuck down.

>>7786816
its a meditation exercise, with time youll start making pockets that resemble what you are looking at.
the whole point of the exercise is to make you focus on the process of drawing, the better the sensation of touch the easier for you to relate multiple positions in relation to your hand, but its all done this way so you develop your own tools and realize that whats on paper its just a residue of the whole experience.
it forces you to enjoy the process in order to get results, good if you are a permabeg stuck on work now enjoy later(never)

This book is basically the opposite of construction and copying plaster casts, I don't think it teaches any perspective and it's just focused on the human figure. Some exercises are gold though (like memory drawings) and worth adopting even if you're not going to follow the book.