Well put! Also, as Scott Eaton once told me, if you can sculpt something, you cant always draw it. But if you can draw it, you can sculpt it. Its true, I have seen it happen to quite extreme degrees :)
Honestly, if you hate drawing so much, I kinda doubt you're gonna love modeling once the thrill of working with the fancy tools wears off. I might be wrong, but at the end of the day drawing and modeling require the same sort of mental processes.
Just thought I'd chime in on the topic of "stupid hands". I don't think it takes as much dexterity as one would think to draw decently well. Surely it helps, but if you can learn to draw a straight line connecting two points, and a curve through three points, you've got enough hand eye coordination to draw well. The most…
I'm not a character artist, but as an environment artist who is shit at drawing, this is definitely true. I'd like to learn to draw but it's just very off putting to see how bad I am at it. Also I'm more inclined to spend my free time mastering modelling and texturing.
Yes, if you want to draw then you can go from zero to hero in a year easily. Again, if you 'want' to. Personally I love character art but find a lot of the time only interested in doing rough sketches of anatomy or comic characters, so drawing at times can be a bit of a chore - gimme zbrush over a pencil and paper anyday!…
Instead of looking at it as 2D vs 3D (drawing vs modeling), try to look at it from a perspective of training your eyes to see (light, proportion, composition etc...). Drawing and painting wouldn't hurt, I would say the same thing in regards to a 2D artist learning 3D. It's all just tools that are used to enhance the…
There are some fantastic character artists out there with some pretty poor drawing skills but they have enough skill to get there idea on paper and if you are lucky enough to hand over the work to a concept artist even better. I would say the biggest reason learning to draw is a good idea is that its not just a skill for…
When you say draw do you mean putting anything that you have in your head onto paper? If yes, then I can understand why you are getting frustrated. I get frustrated when I can't draw what's in my head as well. Why? because we are tying to come up with designs with no foundation. We haven't studied what we are trying to…