How can representational or Classical drawing classes help your art? The most important thing is that you, as an artist, learn to see and understand what you're experiencing often we go through life, so busy that we miss the beauty in it.
Art is a language it's a language made up of color, contrast, pattern, texture, and shapes. Throughout the history of art artist have learned how to use and control these elements to portray a feeling or meaning for them, or the viewer.
It would only seem obvious to me, why not spend some time understanding why previous artist spent their entire life developing, and then choose to use these principles or tools, when, and if you believe that you need them.
What are the key ingredients to developing your eye and understanding in art is the development of your hand and the control and that you need when painting.
The minute you choose to make an expressive brushstroke that stroke has the possibility to have what we call a breath to it and in this breath, you are varying your touch which ultimately will change the thickness of the brushstroke and many ways.
One way is the actual width on the surface you make the stroke, and the other way is the height of the stroke as you drag it across the canvas.
Every time you make a mark something is changing in your artwork; the psychological effect of each mark is evident. it is like the Rosetta Stone without the key it's hard to read, it would be hard to write your story without the true vocab at your disposal.
Please never forget that the elements of art are your punctuation in your story, in your voice, and your art today. Art Mapping is a key ingredient to understanding why you're drawn to a specific image. Understanding the principles of the past and how to use them in your art today.