/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3961525
No one can really teach you how to be "imaginative". The only answer to this is to look everywhere for inspiration - the old masters, your favorite artists, religion, history, mythology, folklore, books, nature, etc. The most imaginative and ambitious artworks in history were inspired by any combination of these things.

But being imaginative isn't really the hard part about art anyway, and it's a common /beg/ trap to be overly concerned with being creative and original because they don't quite understand how much more it takes to create art. You could have the most creative mind there is but without an understanding and skill to put your ideas onto paper and bring it to completion then being "imaginative" is meaningless.

Most great artists start putting down their imaginative ideas for pieces as simple rough thumbnail sketches. That in itself is relatively easy - building it up from thumbnail sketch to a fully rendered painting is what is far more difficult and time consuming. Ask yourself: what kind of skills did it take for the painter behind pic related to develop it from rough sketch to what you see right now? What skills and fundamentals you need for the kind of art that you want to create is really what you need to ask yourself, because once you've become very good at those then you can spend more time concerning yourself with what to create, rather than how.