Trouble with understanding the instructions
4mo
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I have a general question - I have some trouble understanding the instructions in the very first projects - simplifying the pear and mushroom warm up. Specifically, sometimes a phrase is used like "imagine a line here", "imagine the ellipsis before drawing", "be intentional", etc, but there is no instructions telling how to do that, which kinda tells me that this is something so obvious that it doesn't require any explanation, but i'ts not obvious for me. Can someone explain how to do it?
I’m not a teacher or anything so don’t quote me, but maybe what is meant by these types of phrases is to build an image mentally of what you are drawing. Before you put pencil to paper think of what your subject would look in 3D and how you could indicate that correctly with lines and shading. It helps some to imagine a rubber band being wrapped around forms to get an idea of its dimension. If it’s a struggle to picture things that way then maybe real life objects you can hold/see will help, try to picture how a line would wrap around it, even draw lines around them and observe it that way. Like I said, don’t take my word for it though.
The way you wrote this sentence "picture how a line would wrap around it, even draw lines around them", it seems that you differentiate between the first part and the second, but I don't get it - what does "picture" mean that it's different than "drawing"?
Honestly, I checked a dictionary for word "imagine": "form a mental image or concept of". What does it mean to "form a mental image"? I can have a thought that "a line connects two points", is that what it means?
