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    Quote Originally Posted by Rudje View Post
    In general people really underestimate how much training your eye is as much a skill as training your hands. It's like expecting the average person to send even a mediocre bug report; there's a lot of learning involved in knowing what details are relevant and what is a problem because of something else (ie the early comments about the eyes looking wrong were in many ways because of how the highlights were altered, but you wouldn't know that if you only looked at those very early comments because it took someone who knew what to look for to pinpoint what they were picking up).
    Also completely agree with that one. When you learn to draw you spent a considerable amount of time on learning just to see.
    Sometimes you don't draw at all but instead spend time on lengthy visual analyses of shapes, anatomy, colour, light, perspective etc.
    Motor skills are important but they only translate what you visually perceive in the first place.
    There is a really interesting (older) book called "Drawing with the right side of the brain" that explores how the mere act of learning to see on its own completely changes your drawing results. (Can really recommend that book for anyone interested in picking up drawing btw.)

    And anecdotally I can also say that even if I haven't drawn for a prolonged period of time I sometimes still make progress just because I practice lots of active observation during those "motoric down times".

    There is actually so much practice and skill involved in visual and detail-focused perception.

    Sorry, tangent over.
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    Last edited by Loggos; 04-20-2024 at 04:11 AM.