tags: #publish links: [[Learn to Draw tutorials]] created: 2022-05-11 Wed --- # Iterative Drawing by **Sycra Yasin** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ufz75UvHs My notes: - **Analytical** - can describe technique, want methocs - can see what's wrong - tend to second-guess self - **Creative-Intuitive** - can't really say how they do it - muscle memory If you're Analytical you probably struggle with practice / mileage because you'll over-analyse what you're doing if you just do one at a time, you'll try to perfect each one So, iterate - lots: **Today:** - Start your page with 20 not-too-big repetitions of (say) a head - Do a rough for the first one - Look/analyse it - For the next one, change something small, see how it behaves (e.g. move the eyes down) - Repeat for third, analyse, fix in next **Tomorrow:** - Look at yesterday's again, analyse - Then do some more iterations - Try iterating different attributes e.g. angle, shape - Iterate the whole drawing - composition - what if I move the horizon, location of the house - Colour, hue, saturation, lightness *Why it works / purpose* - Combo of: - mileage (practice) - training muscle memory / intuitive - improvement and training your observation of what worked or didn't - connection between analytical and intuitive because using both at once Key things: * *iteration, not perfection* * *analyse and use to inform the next one* - *deliberate variation - **what if** scenarios* - *play* Hints: - Waiting for a feeling - *that's ok* or *that's interesting*, engage your analytical skill - *Don't look at reference too early* - play and develop your sense first - When you do: *study/analyse* the reference using the sense you've already developed - don't just draw/repeat it - If you don't understand the reference - go and iterate and play with the ideas