I'm currently practicing traditional figure drawing and studying human anatomy at the moment. One of the primarily reason is because it's always been something that I wanted to learn and had a fascination for. Another reason is because I want to learn zbrush in the future for doing character modeling and sculpting, so…
My take on it would be that a history in clay sculpting is helpful. But if you don't have that already, you would be much better served spending that time learning digital sculpting.
This has been discussed multiple times here in the past and the bottom line is that people have mixed opinions about it. I would say if you're asking if it is important to study traditional sculpting then the answer is probably no. If you're asking if it is useful? That's a different question entirely, personally I would…
Nah. To be more informative, traditional sculpting is fun and cool, but it's also expensive and you still have to learn a ton of tools that aren't the unnecessarily user-unfriendly zbrush or 3D software tools that you would be dealing with daily at any character job. Don't get me wrong, if you have the opportunity readily…
Glauco Longhi, an amazing artist, shared some of his opinions on this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QEQkINNwX4 and here's part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uhOEFNSMW8 Sure if you want to be a digital artist you should sculpt in a digital medium more. But dabbling in traditional sculpting will most…