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hot take: anime redraws are just master studies for nerds (im nerds, nerds is me)
teen me didn& #39;t want to do painting master studies of classical artists unless i thought it would help me develop the kind of style i wanted, and bc of that i thought i just didn& #39;t want to do master studies at all, but in reality i just wanted to study ikuko itoh& #39;s iconic style
fuck it, i& #39;m an adult and i still think doing master studies of most classical western artists isn& #39;t fun. i don& #39;t want to sit and stare at a painting of a man all day while i try to copy the brushstrokes and colours. i want to draw anime girls
the artists i always say recommended for master studies were so realist so the subjects were always very mundane and the colours & stylization weren& #39;t very experimental. i am sure that would probably teach me something but at what cost when it didn& #39;t inspire me at all lol
the first time i saw a master artist recommended to study from that i got EXCITED about was a mattesi lecture on gesture drawing where he gushed about leyendecker bc ofc i& #39;m going to get hype abt a queer artist with an excellent understanding of shape and form and illustration!!
anyways after that i started deciding that i was going to pick and choose who i& #39;d learn and study from based on what i actually liked and what i wanted to channel in my artwork so like. gestures at queer artists, disney and anime artists from my childhood, etc etc
