Kim Jung Gi and David Finch on the importance of learning how to draw the geometric solids in perspective

 My thoughts:

I think it's vitally important that he draws things very realistically, even if occasionally more cartoonish. Drawing real things means sometimes you'll draw things sitting in front of you, and that's the best way to develop your accuracy and perspective sense, what I've called the mental 3D engine.

From what he keeps saying, it definitely sounds like he visualizes things in perspective a lot, I mean even when he's not drawing. I never thought to do that! Just now I'm looking around at things in the studio and imagining being a little mini-me floating around and seeing it from various different angles. Including the fish-eye lens he talks about—the 5-point perspective. I think practicing seeing things like that—visualizing even when you're not sitting at the drawing board—is an amazing exercise that will definitely develop your artist's eye. 

With both Kim Jung Gi and the David Finch video I just watched they really push learning how to see and draw everything in perspective, without using the guidelines and vanishing points etc, learning how to imagine everything as geometric solids that you can visually rotate any which way and throw light on however you want. Drawing this a lot helps you to visualize it. 

That's very much the same thing I'm working toward now with anatomy. When you've learned all the parts so well it sinks into the unconscious and you can draw it intuitively, that's when you can just spool off drawings fast and modify the body however you want. When it becomes intuitive you don't have to think consciously about it, and it emerges gracefully and fluidly (Hah! Fluid thinking again FTW!)

Here's the David Finch video: