For learning anatomy do I learn in 2D or 3D?
polycounter lvl 4
I am trying to learn character design for 3D. I try to make at least a sculpt a day in Zbrush. I know it is important to learn anatomy but I am not sure if it is better to try to make the anatomy in zbrush or to do it on traditional paper and pencil. Could I get some advice please?
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I can't draw worth a crap. Not because I fail to notice what I'm looking at, but because I have shaky hands and not being able to ctrl-z little mistakes drives me crazy. It helps to have some raw drawing skill in zbrush, but even if you don't, there's so many tools to accommodate such a handicap.
Lastly, if you want to work in 3d, the more time you spend in that medium the more exposure you get, the more mistakes you make to learn from, the more tools and workflows you discover...on the other hand, like carv said, some drawing here and there is not a big investment, and it might totally make sense to make good use of commute time, or down time when your eyes are tired of computer screens but you still want to practice a bit.
Also, have you taken figure drawing before?
Other than some simple sketches not really. Growing up everyone including my art teachers made fun of me for my art so I grew to avoid drawing at all costs. Now I am starting to get into it again as an adult but I am not very good.
I personally also don't agree with the notion of just keep producing. Might be that someone needs to be constantly producing art and just the constant practice will form his skillset, but some people need to take it slow and learn a lot more from reflecting on what they did than by simply re-doing the same thing over and over again to repeat 99 mistake but to improve on 1 thing. And in the end it might be a mixture - for me I take it slow until i comprehand something, then I need to repeat it several times until I reach a point where I can overthink what I am doing to understand what I need to do differently.
So my advice is find out what you like to do and what you feel comfortable with when it comes to learning. It will always involve doing art and doing a lot of it to improve, but it isn't about the number of drawings or sculpts you will do. Sometimes a lot of the work has to happen in your head or re-working the same drawing/sculpt until you comprehand what went well and what didn't.
Cheers.