[Uriel Caiado]

Jeffrey Shepherd

they aren’t bad, but you might be looking at the exercises the wrong way. If you try to emulate another’s gestures, most likely you won’t be able. You cannot know for certain what are the calculations Vilppu’s is doing. At most you could emulate his the general starting flow of the figure since it’s pretty much the general part of the composition. Much like copying another’s music: you can always get most of important notes the same way everyone does, but the process of fine tuning the composition until you make yours and the reference alike is an unimaginably complex problem which everyone tackles in a different way. You’re not learning to draw a stick doll, or whatever, you’re composing the reference image on your mind with the help of the paper as so not to blow your brainware (hahaha) with trying to calculate it all at once. A lot like a math problem, what matters is that you solve it, with the help of the paper, which in turns becomes proof that you managed to solve it, but the focus must be solving it and that the math on the paper is understandable and without muddy unneeded simple calculations.

[Uriel Caiado]

I’d like to say that his teachings, which i’m watching for the n-esimal time, are very similar to the way a post-grad course on mathematics looks like.

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