/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>3749155
I draw using this method (construction only and mostly imagination, no direct copying). It's very satisfying but really hard to do anon. You have to only use reference as, well, reference to get the jist of the rotation / position in space of what you want to draw, but when you actually draw the thing you do it constructively from imagination. If you train yourself to exclusively think of stuff as broken down sets of shapes / raw anatomy and draw the mechanics of things e.g. you understand how a bicycle works in order to draw it, you will be able to draw shit from imagination freely, maybe using just a perspective grid as an aid.
Same goes with drapery really, you just practice cloth with different tension points until you have a general understanding of how it works, then when the creases happen on the body you will be able to put them into place.

However be aware that doing this will make things 1000x more difficult than just copying reference like everyone does and IN MY OPINION after trying for many many years you need a certain type of talent, like a really good aptitude for spatial visualization and photographic memory, to pull it off on a level like pic related.
Yes, he draws constructively and draws routinely on this level with no reference.