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Reddit mentions of Classical Drawing Atelier: A Contemporary Guide to Traditional Studio Practice
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| Color | Grey |
| Height | 11.34 Inches |
| Length | 9.28 Inches |
| Number of items | 1 |
| Release date | October 2006 |
| Weight | 2.16273479022 Pounds |
| Width | 0.66 Inches |
In the meantime, draw everything. Everything. EVERYTHING.
Keep a sketch book with you always! Draw people waiting for the bus, cars parked outside, city blocks, landscapes, trees, ideas, concepts, doodles, nonsense.
Take pictures of things and use them for reference. Constantly! Can't figure out how an arm looks like in a certain pose, get someone to pose the same way and take a shot with your phone. Its not "cheating" and most artists worth their salt will stare at you like you're insane if you told them to do a large scale project with no live or photo references.
Go to figure drawing meetups. There's usually some at art schools or in any big city. You will be terrible at first but drawing people is a good way to train your eye.
Copy your favorite artist. Not just draw from, but try to copy a whole piece of art, from start to finish, line for line, as closely as possible. Do this a lot! It will help you understand why they put this thing there, and put that thing here, and drew that thing like this.
Its the same reason musicians practice other people's work before they start composing their own!
Figure out who their influence are, and do the same thing with them.
If you're looking for books to get you started, here are some good ones.
'The Classical Drawing Atelier' by Juliette Aristides
https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Drawing-Atelier-Contemporary-Traditional/dp/0823006573