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Years ago, it felt like the majority of discussion on the board was just arguments between constructoids and anime copiers. The constructoids basically championed the importance of drawing boxes and building up everything out of simple 3D forms, whereas the anime copiers said that boxes/cylinders alone would get you nowhere and it was more important to build up intuition for shapes and poses by copying lots of drawings.
Now I almost never see those arguments playing out anymore. Did one side finally win?
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The difference between back then vs now is we didn't have the class 101s and the Colosos showing a myriad of techniques. We were stuck with Hampton and friends. You don't hear about it anymore because the resources exploded exponentially.
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>>7957392
brother everything on this board is a false dichotomy meant solely to farm reactions and waste time. People who actually draw already know most principles people insist on pitting against each other (construction vs anime, linefag vs rendermonkeys, repetition vs intentional study, etc) all lend to each other, like literally. Only using one is shooting yourself in the foot.
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>>7957332
the constructoids leaders were shown to be unable to draw anything. While anime just kept getting bigger and bigger. At some point you just have to face the facts, construction is not real. Its a method for learning but you are meant to graduate it from it and start drawing forms as soon as you can. Construction alone does not produce good drawings.
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>>7957332
>anime copiers said that boxes/cylinders alone would get you nowhere
No, they said (and keep saying) that costruction is a scam through and through, and they are wrong.
>>7957391
Gesture drawing has nothing to do with tracing anime to figure out proportions without considering threedimensionality.
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>>7957494
See, you're just trying to fling shit. You could, alternatively, explain that anime is in no way a fundamental or principal of drawing, but none the less, copying anime is uselessly pitted against construction drawing. Try to make fourchan a happy place, eh?
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>>7957332
One of the more positive recent developments on Twitter/X is that I get tons of posts from Japanese, Korean, and Chinese artists in my feed. Particularly the Korean animation students. You know what I see? A lot of construction. A lot of life drawing too.
It has become harder to protect lies with the language barrier. Asian animators are hardcore constructionists.
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>>7957890
The how-to tag on pixiv was also pretty eye-opening, and then you have pro animators like the guy from hide channel recommending the same books you'd see recommended on /ic/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBqEj3tKD6o
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>>7958378
Don't be ridiculous. That's like saying piano scales are useless just because a professional pianist isn't actively running up and down them during a performance. They don't abandon the scales, the scales became muscle memory, spatial awareness, and the literal framework for how they navigate the keys without looking.
It's the exact same for art. Professionals aren't skipping construction, they're just doing it via shorthand. Their spatial logic is so highly developed that a single contour line implies the entire 3D form underneath. They only lay down explicit guiding lines when they hit a complex angle, because the fundamental structure is already entirely alive in their head.
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>>7957380
>why not both?
Anime copy is literally "both", they just start from copying instead of learning construction first.
Once they gain knowledge of shapes through copying, they go for construction, and it's easier to learn because they know what they are doing.