The best learning tool?

[BIGTONKERTOYS]

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What are your favorite learning tools. I am at the intermediate level right now and would like to learn more without going to an actual school if I can avoid it.

[Carodeu]

Oh, come on, dont try to create one more bycicle, the best learning method is PATIENCE-BASED, so just take a pencil and draw, then draw more, then more until you will get puke, after puke drop that pencil and take another one, and draw again (not till puke anymore) and you will see, which whay is best to learn :D

[Zazerzs]

I like vids because you can see the techniques in process.

and you forgot books, which i use more than the rest combined.

[k-shary]

Oh, come on, dont try to create one more bycicle, the best learning method is PATIENCE-BASED, so just take a pencil and draw, then draw more, then more until you will get puke, after puke drop that pencil and take another one, and draw again (not till puke anymore) and you will see, which whay is best to learn :D

Agreed. And remember, experience is also the best teacher.

[Nrx]

this is silly are you guys seriously saying that everyone learns in the exact same way and that any other way than yours is a excuse?

you can look around the forums, some peeps will make awesome progression quickly, some will make average progression slowly, to me its all down to learning technique, this dude is asking the right questions.

(it should go without saying that application is a massive part too, but ill put in brackets for the not so awake)

the best things ive seen have been jasons lectures, they just sink right in, im one of the best (if not the best) at mixing hues now in my class thanks to him :P

[Baron Impossible]

You need to give some more information - what exactly do you want to learn? To be honest, a two posts with virtually no info and a home page selling insurance makes you look like a spammer.

[bjoern3000]

this is silly are you guys seriously saying that everyone learns in the exact same way and that any other way than yours is a excuse?
This has been proven over hundreds of years. So the answer to him was not that wrong.

Especially when one is giving no more information, what else should the answer be?

Maybe you are right but how can someone make a telediagnosis for BIGTONKERTOYS?

[Sebastard]

I use a mixture, every day. I use books, web-pages and electronic tutorials (videos) and i find this mixture to be a pretty good way of learning for me. There probably are improvements to be made, using books more then i am now perhaps, but we'll see with time :). Good part about books is, you don't need to be drawing or at the computer to learn. (although it certainly helps). I read some of my art books every evening, refreshing theoretical anatomy, colour theory, composition, perspective, etc.

[Xeon_OND]

Books are still the best way to go (because it's way easier to read from warm fluffy pages than crappy electronic files, and it's also easier to get the "feel" of what the writer is trying to convey).

Videos are more for learning and observing how other artists work, and also live demos of certain techniques when you're confused.

IMo, books first and to further enrich your knowledge, come to the forums to exchange tips / ideas and watch vids to further that knowledge. :D

[Noah Bradley]

All of them.

[Arshes Nei]

Best learning tool is trial and error but yeah, this guy might be a bot.