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In my process I paint a variety of pieces both from my imagination, and from reference. I’ve fallen into the challenging artist habit of copying references, attempting to make the piece look as much like the source as possible. This is great for learning many things, but is only part of the path. Using reference to understand general guidelines and mechanics, then applying those in alternative circumstances, enables reference to be much more powerful in improving the quality of work.

This piece started from my imagination as an attempt to see what facial shapes I understood, and I was constantly reminded that the intricacies of how certain elements interact was beyond my knowledge base. Learning reference for use both in the current context, and how to apply that same learning to alien contexts is quite useful.

What are areas where you learned how to do something that’s hypothetically cross applicable, but it ended up being essentially useless because you only understood how to use it in a very narrow range of cases? What are areas that you have trained into your intuition deeply enough that even in seemingly disparate fields you constantly find new ways to apply that wisdom to different worlds?

--Isicera

Description

In my process I paint a variety of pieces both from my imagination, and from reference. I’ve fallen into the challenging artist habit of copying references, attempting to make the piece look as much like the source as possible. This is great for learning many things, but is only part of the path. Using reference to understand general guidelines and mechanics, then applying those in alternative circumstances, enables reference to be much more powerful in improving the quality of work.

This piece started from my imagination as an attempt to see what facial shapes I understood, and I was constantly reminded that the intricacies of how certain elements interact was beyond my knowledge base. Learning reference for use both in the current context, and how to apply that same learning to alien contexts is quite useful.

What are areas where you learned how to do something that’s hypothetically cross applicable, but it ended up being essentially useless because you only understood how to use it in a very narrow range of cases? What are areas that you have trained into your intuition deeply enough that even in seemingly disparate fields you constantly find new ways to apply that wisdom to different worlds?

--Isicera