If you have enough talent to use it for ten years, and if your talent, study direction, and teachers are not ideal, you will not be able to draw the human body for 20 years. Portraits and human bodies are the most difficult to express in sketching, because people's expressions can change hundreds of times in one minute. To learn art, talent accounts for 80%, good teachers account for 18%, and diligence accounts for only 2%. The most taboo thing about learning calligraphy and painting is practicing calligraphy and sketching every day. You'd better draw a color sketch first, so that you can determine whether you have art talent. If you don't have talent, even Leonardo da Vinci's rebirth won't be able to teach you. In domestic art academies, you usually start painting the human body only after you are a graduate student, while in foreign art academies, you only start painting plaster models of feet during your sophomore year. It's useless for you to look at Berryman's human body structure now, and Berryman's book on human body structure techniques and techniques are not the best either. Sketching is boring, and generally people without talent will be unable to sit still. If there is a studio in the city you live in, I suggest you become a model first to experience the boring experience of learning sketching. After you know how to distinguish the quality of drawing taught in the studio, it will be too late to buy calligraphy and painting tools and learn. We ask you to be a headshot model first so that you can develop the patience to sit still. To draw a headshot, the model requires that the model's expression and posture remain unchanged for 45 minutes. Normally it would be very difficult for you to do this. At first you couldn't sit still for 5 minutes. If you draw a sketch like a bear and sit for 20 hours without eating or drinking, you can't do it now! If we fail to do so, we will not be able to complete the foundation work of basic courses within ten years. In addition, learning sketching is very expensive. If you don’t have enough resources at home or don’t have enough talent, it’s best not to learn it. That will make money difficult to deal with!
One year for copying plaster geometric model paintings, two years for full-angle plaster geometric sketches, one year for plaster facial features, and at least half a year for the faceted portrait of Alexander; three plaster heads of Voltaire, a Roman youth, and a Marseille warrior are the most It will take 2 years soon. I have been copying and sketching portraits for 2 years, which is eight and a half years. I am still a very talented person in art. In ten years, I still have one and a half years left. You can complete the process from copying templates to plaster busts, plaster human figures, and sketching human bodies. Study?
In the era of plaster painting, everyone who was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts had to study sketching for at least 10 years before taking the exam. From a Bachelor of Arts to a Master of Culture in the Academy of Fine Arts, the fastest time to study for a bachelor's and master's degree was 4 years, a total of 14 years. Graduates of Chinese art academies are awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree.
If you can draw human bodies using the current method of drawing photos after ten years of drawing, what will you do when you go abroad to study in the future? Did he study at a level as low as Professor Ye Nan from CAFA?
Xiong said that CAFA has no sketching masters, and he didn’t just say it out of hand, because the sketching problem is simply the quality of a line.
After Xiong went to see a foreign painter exhibition with his teacher and Guan Jie, a professor at the Lumei Oil Painting Department, fifteen years ago, Xiong has not seen any famous domestic and foreign painters exhibitions in the past fifteen years, and has almost no major exhibitions. Large-scale painting is a long-term job. I only occasionally draw a few 5-second sketches or two-minute full-factor sketches every year.