In response to blip #123458

Daleport996 said:
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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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In response to blip #123461

savageorange said:
Decide your topic matter better

I was being intentionally vague to not trip off the "creepy comments" rule. I suppose I could've said I do a lot of figure drawings of characters with unusual anatomy in binary drawing style (and I didn't even mention any specific fetishes there). Doesn't matter. You already gave an answer.

Constructive Anatomy by Bridgman

This is what I meant by anatomy. Though, it seems to be more of a reference guide than a how-to like the Scott Robertson book? Still, I do think it is going to help me.

Anyway, thanks for answering.

Character count threshold is BS.

Just a guess, but I think it adds some invisible formatting for like newlines or for closing everything so no formatting bleeds to the rest of the page if one was not properly closed. Or "In response to blip" is somehow counted as part of the blip itself.

In response to blip #123461

savageorange said:
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Character count threshold is BS. I had to shave this down to 986 characters before it would post rather than giving the 'body too long, blips must be <1000 characters' error.
That's why there are missing full stops.

Not really sure why. It's not like I used any multibyte characters (Unicode) that would confuse a bad character counter, it was all ASCII.

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