Welp, turns out all courses only start after the summer break. I see I have picked just the right time to pause posting to my galleries [/sarcasm].

Since I'm not gonna spend a whole month doing nothing, can anyone recommend me what book to get or which material should I learn first for the purposes of drawing whatever the hell weird stuff I usually draw?

My mind suggests to just re-learn figures/anatomy and perspective. But knowing my track record, I'm probably wrong. A lot of art lessons I found start with perspective, though. In fact, that's the only thing I learned before dropping out of architecture school.

Look, I just want to be able to draw again without the overwhelming guilt that my impostor syndrome was just Dunning--Kruger in disguise all along. Can't even bring myself to type furaffinity on the address bar.

I'm so fucked up. Sorry for the unhinged rant.

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In response to blip #123458

Daleport996 said:
start with

Decide your topic matter better than 'whatever weird stuff I usually make'. Find a teacher that does that stuff in a way you like

books or material

How to Draw by Scott Robertson. clearest and most comprehensive book about perspective/projection.
Something to balance out the formalizing influence of traditional perspective. I like moatdd's approach, check this and see if you do too

Anatomy in the sense of being able to say, this is the X, it attaches to the Y?. Not that important IMO. gesture and major figure landmarks are the 80% of figure drawing. Drawing from the drawings in Constructive Anatomy by Bridgman might help with understanding how to caricature the major forms of any given element of a figure

Gesture is super individual IMO. I think it's necessary to try many different approaches in great volume and synthesize them into your own hybrid

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