Full:Using the Rules to Create a New Game (Patreon)

The idea for this came out of doing perspective demonstrations for the Intro to Drawing Bad Art Course. I was trying to show that you can start with a box and then use the structure of a box to keep organic forms in perspective. Drawing these blobby structures just felt good to me so I decided to do a painting that way.

The fundamentals of drawing, especially perspective, are so rules based and systematic, that they don't feel very sexy when looking for different ways to approach a painting. But when you know those rules, you can really experiment and play around with them. It's not even so much "learning the rules so you can break them" it's more "learning the rules so that you can create a new game for yourself"

The other artists I mention

• The Dali I was looking at
• Van Goyen for clouds
• Caravaggio  for skin tone