/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>6729543
Copy from reference, then reproduce it from memory. Repeat until your memory drawings don't look like shit no more.

>>6717510
oh shit and I completely forgot to talk about drawing from imagination. The whole point of all of this is to build up your "visual library"* so that you can DO drawings from imagination! idk if you can see in the smaller pic so here's the fullsize, but after I did a few glen keane studies I tried out an imagination drawing in his style. I find doing these "hot on the heels" of your studies really helps, it makes a nice cap to the session. Having strong fundamentals, a process that makes sense to you (and ideally is stolen from a better artist or cribbed from multiple artists, taking the bits and pieces that click the most with you), and doing lots of memory drawings to enforce these lessons definitely helps.

Again, I just want to stress these are just my musings and I might be wrong, I still have so much to learn. But I've been thinking about this for a while now and I'm kind of just using this as a dumping ground for my thoughts as well, because I feel like I learn better if I can explain what I'm learning to someone else.

*I actually hate the term visual library because I have such a poor visual memory that it's more like a kinetic library for me. I don't just conjure up in my head a Bridgman leg and then draw what I see in my mind's eye, I just remember HOW to draw one, like the actual process of it. I'm looking at the ink on the page, not the image in my mind. Not sure if this is just a "me" thing though, if you have a strong visual memory then absolutely use that to your advantage.

>>6715557
Really nice! That gossamer material is really reading well.