Anon05/15/26, 04:02No.7941605
From someone who spent like a solid month studying how the Japanese learn art (from blogs, forum posts, Youtube videos, manga about making manga, etc), the answer is quite interesting:>artists tend to dedicate several hours a day to drawing
>the culture encourages constant copying from magazines, printed out photos, or online artwork as well as actually using references properly (breaking it down into shapes/forms)
>the Japanese keep their hands busy with origami and kirigami which helps them with 3D forms
>they're constantly exposed to comic art from a young age
>art programs and art teachers heavily stress drawing from life (specifically cuboid and spherical objects found around the house) and nailing down line quality (Japanese Youtube videos always ask you to spend at least a month on grinding lines, shapes, and forms before you move on to anything else) BEFORE even touching renderingIn America, our culture isn't supportive towards learning art:>the sheer number of people who think merely looking at references is cheating
>LE TRACING IS BAD (even if you're just breaking a reference down into shapes before you actually draw) despite the amount of legendary artists who started off tracing in their formative years
>everyone getting hung up on perspective and construction rather than focusing on composition
>MUH RENDERING
>everyone bitching and moaning about having to work on grinding shapes and forms and lines