• recommended brushes for CSI, more square brushes

• round brushes makes it harder to feel the shapes

• #33

  

• #97

  

• usage of CSI is very close to how traditional artists break down initial shapes when drawing statues

  

• traditional art uses mostly C and I, not so much S curves

goal of using CSI to break down photos

• learn basic shapes of objects (goldfish)

  • without learning this you'll never think of adding goldfish into your artwork because the difficulty is too high

• being able to breakdown objects into its segments and put it together again

  

• pasting leg into another figure + rotating limbs

  

• using understanding of perspective to add wrapping lines that increases the believability of the pose

  

• you need to have the basic ability to do this

  

• adding boxes to your pose should come second, not first

• first get the general shape/silhouette of the figure down then add your torso/hip boxes

  

• the torso/hip boxes will help convince your viewers that you planned this pose from the start and resolve general issues

• this idea of breaking into shapes + transforming segments of the body doesn't come into play when you're drawing traditionally on paper

  • traditional figure drawing on paper relies on a more complete process where you plan out all the gesture/body position ahead of time

  

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