Am I wrong?For both instructional books of decent quality, and ones that are hugely acclaimed like toshi's animator books, and even courses from famous artists, I feel like the text/spoken portion is very limited, and most of the gains you get are from drawing by reference anyway.In that case, rather than autistically completing a full textbook or course, wouldn't it be better to compile a list of sakugabooru frames you like, or manga pages you like, or paintings, portraits, sculptures, whatever - to make "your own textbook" and study from there instead?A simpler TL;DR question you could answer is: "Should I just not autistically waste time on 400 page textbooks like top left in picrel"
>>8065883>sakugabooru>plagued by westoid shitters uploading their own garbage work>good
>>8065883Yep. Better to build a collection of references to study than to use a textbook. A textbook/course is really only meant for experienced artists.
>>8065883What books are those?
>>8065894>The only way to use sakugabooru is to open a random video, I have zero free will
>>80659061st one is picrel2nd one just search toshi animator art book on googleI got into coursebusters and got some books from there (there's also a lot of books on /ic/) but i'm seriously questioning their utility after now having completed 1 or 2 of them last month
>>8065883Teaching art is very hard so most of them suck ass. Most are lazy cash grabs to trick beginners that don't know any better. Only the great ones are worth copying completely. For the rest just pick and choose the parts that are good.
>>8065945>great one that is worth copying completelyCould you share a few of those?I copied all of the first part of draw a box and a Hogarth book and those (I, as someone between /beg/ and /int/ I'd say) I would consider as part of that
