/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>4580550
Yes but you also need talent so in which case you should give up

>>4580550
No retard, you only need discipline and good fucking taste.

>>4580561
What if you never know what to draw? You'd just end up disciplining yourself into endless studies, feeling like you're going nowhere until you feel sick of art altogether

>>4580575
Just remember why did you start drawing on the first place.

I seem to have almost no visual imagination, but I'm still semi-decent at painting. I suspect that many people who think they have a good 'mind's eye' are just oblivious to how bad their internal visualisation is because they aren't used to looking at things without just pattern-matching them to symbolic representations. A big part of being an artist is being able to actually look at something as a series of shapes, textures, actual colours, etc. rather than just enough detail to bring the concept of what you are looking at into your mind. Ask a typical normie to draw an everyday object and they will usually miss out obvious features, never mind getting the shapes wrong, etc. Ask them to pick out the colour of tree bark from a box of crayons and they will pick out a rich mid-brown. Yet despite this, many of them will insist that they can visualise realistic images in their mind. They can't. It's just that they can't visualise realistic images of reality right in front of their eyes either, so the 'picture' in their head seems similar to reality to them.

ngmi

>>4580561
>good fucking taste
Good taste is a form of magic, like talent.

>>4581641
You can actually develop good taste, but you need to get out of your animu furry crap cave.

>>4580590
>mfw i don't even know anymore

>>4581996
same, my old brain can't remember my years of young anymore... and not i'm back to my mid life crisis, thanks thread

>>4580575
This is really fucking worryng me right now, I have advanced un technique quite a lot but I don't have any creative ideas to put that progress to work, it feels so bad.

>>4581487
Fifth post best post
Not being able to see things in your head doesn't mean you can't remember what things look like or that you don't have a visual library.
There's a guy who goes by Salgood Sam that can't see mental imagery, but can draw human anatomy from memory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsyqG0fA4_I
There's actually a surprising number of artists that can't visualise, believe it or not.
I think that drawing is less dependent on the minds eye than you think it is. It makes some things easier, I suppose, but it doesn't mean everything.

>>4582053
That's the opposite of my problem, I've got too many ideas running around in my head and no discipline to advance my technique lmao
I suggest you make up characters to draw, and places to put them in. Give them personalities and make them interact. Or do fan art.

>>4581996
Why are we even here? Just to suffer?