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Boosting my vocabulary!
Godfather
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So i'm currently an animation student stationed in Toronto!
One of the things we do in our life drawing class is quick gesture studies. I'm not the greatest at them, but I try very hard to rectify my problems, and one of the things I like to do is read art books on the subject.
In one of my books it states that one of the greatest secrets of establishing a sturdy, convincing gesture is to think in terms of verbs instead of nouns, then relay that expression onto the page! So in short, the greater my wordbank becomes, the stronger my knowledge at conveying the model's pose on the canvas will be!
What's the best way to steadily build up my vocabulary? Something that I can do a little each day that will expand my mind to help me search for that perfect string of verbs and nouns that will convey the emotion the model is portraying in front of me?
One of the things we do in our life drawing class is quick gesture studies. I'm not the greatest at them, but I try very hard to rectify my problems, and one of the things I like to do is read art books on the subject.
In one of my books it states that one of the greatest secrets of establishing a sturdy, convincing gesture is to think in terms of verbs instead of nouns, then relay that expression onto the page! So in short, the greater my wordbank becomes, the stronger my knowledge at conveying the model's pose on the canvas will be!
What's the best way to steadily build up my vocabulary? Something that I can do a little each day that will expand my mind to help me search for that perfect string of verbs and nouns that will convey the emotion the model is portraying in front of me?
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Go over the words and remember how the word was used by the author. Best way to learn words when you can remember the context it was used and why.
You want to learn more words, so you read more of them. Reading older public domain books on Google Books is a good way to stretch your vocabulary. A lot of the words have fallen out of use, so you're less likely to get bored with words and ideas you're already familiar with.
That, and they are pretty fun :^:
It works to a degree, but I've found that words I find in crossword puzzles very rarely work their way into my vocabulary because they are used out of context. I'll still know the definition, but I'll very rarely use them.
I actually already do this, but it takes forever to go through them and I only have enough time in the day to read (I have a lot of books to catch up on).
I was thinking of some sort of cheap program I could pick up that would go along well with the other mentioned methods?
- Amazon link
- $6.99 +tax
Vis Ed cards
- Site
- shouldn't be more than $15
- They provide an example mnemonic sentence along with each definition
PSN - sumowot
elan
ewer
adze
seriously. Read novels, or compilation books like 'Best <whatever> writing 200*'. Newspapers used to be the go-to, but they aren't what they used to be as far as writing quality goes, and they'll also make you very angry because the world is a bit of a mess.
You could also get something like this.
With tremendous elan, he smashed the silver ewer in a single swing of his mighty adze.
I used to have the dictionary.com word of the day via email and then via RSS. It's sort of a slow trickle of new words, usually with several context sentences to reinforce them.