No.143
Just sitting here doing figure studies, having reference makes everything "easy" but when I have to exercise some imaginary stuff of the same concept I am dead in the water.
How come is it that I can draw figures fighting with swords for example, but when I try to use my imagination to do the same I draw absolute blanks? Hell even coming up with an idea to begin with is hard.
Am I worrying about nothing? I just feel extremely bad at imagination when I can't even think of what imaginary pose I should do, the freedom is overwhelming and stunning.
Attached image related, 60 second poses, red ones from imagination.
No.144
Carry a little notebook with you. whenever you think of something cool that you'd like to see, or you feel like drawing, write it down.
As you build up a nice list. Whenever you sit down to draw and don't have a good idea, use one from your list.
Before long you should be getting ideas far more frequently too.
No.151
creativity and imagination is a muscle.
best thing to do is expand your technical skill in addition to building up a mental visual library, best way to do this is shrimp method
1) Draw a shrimp without googling it, just like you think a shrimp looks like
2) Look up references and make studies
3) Draw a shrimp for the last time, again with no reference, you'll use the knowledge you acquired and cement it
No.157
No.189
>>144>>151Thank you for your suggestions, I will do this. Was starting to wonder if I was just not a very creative person, I hear people having creative blocks, but that must've mean they were creative to begin with, which I never really felt like haha.
No.190
Visual library is crucial for drawing with imagination.
Most of the things that you think you come up with, are actually from something you've seen before. Be it a shape, pattern, design feature, texture, way of stylization, and so on.
If you hide in a hole doing nothing but drawing by yourself, you won't get much more creative.
No.191
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Also I highly recommend watching this video.
No.192
>>190>>191Ahh yeah, my visual library is not the best since my memory is apeshit, can't hardly even imagine how a celebrity would look infront of me.
Really cool video, did not expect to learn that from Cleese.
No.314
>>192What i found to be a good way to expand my visual library was through reading books. When you see someone else's art you might think
that's cool, i'd like to make something like that but you'll end up struggling because of reasons like that it's looks to much like the source.
But when you read a book you will created your own version of the mentioned concept.
Worked for me at least.
No.1934
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>>191>>143or ya know you could watch this
No.2084
>>143I say it's a bit of both.
Even the most
abstract of images have some basis in our perception of reality.
You need a basis for your image even if the final result fools the audience into thinking you came up with something completely original.
In a certain way you could say that something only seems original only because the person who considers it original doesn't know the reference.