/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

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>>3811914
looking at your drawings and seeing how you mention anatomy for sculptures helping you a lot I can stop feeling how alike we are

I was like you until recently. Drawing from refs is boring because I dont feel I learn that much, drawing from imagination does not allow me to get any kind of flow and feels like something to push thru, and I know thats not the way of making it.

Ive had an evrika moment recently and since then I actually feel like I am learning when drawing. Not at a very good pace because i am still lazy, but atleast when I invest the time I actually feel like learning something, and drawing from imagination feels less and less like a chore the more I learn. I am sure at this rate Ill reach a point where imagination drawing will become my way of procrastination.

There are 2 big things which I learn to contribute to this. One is that drawing from memory == drawing from imagination. When somebody draws from imagination he actually remembers how various things look like and then combines them to create something new. Using the same thinking but backwards, one can learn to draw from imagination by forcing yourself to draw from memory various objects. Those objects which you will be able to draw from memory will become your visual memory, what you use to combine into new things.

I actually knew this for like a year now but still each time I tried to draw I felt constrained by my refs. I would find myself in a loop of searching for refs of something at a certain angle, because I had another ref which would show a face of an object, but not the other, so when I would try to draw it from memory at various angles I would have to improvised at the angles I did not know, and my drawings felt constrained by the refs in the way that I could not draw the objects except for the shown angle.

I'm not someone who draws a lot of horror-related stuff, but I thought I'd offer some input. I've heard that lighting from below (especially high in contrast) like the middle face in pic related sets a creepy tone. Something to do with the uncanny valley and being unnatural because a light source coming from below very rarely occurs in nature, I think it was