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[Anonymous No.3809351]

What's visual memory?

How does it work?
I wanna know IC?

[Anonymous No.3809355]

>>3809351
have you ever dreamed before?
have you ever remembered playing a video game?
have you ever remembered a movie scene?
have you ever tried to remember that one porn video?
what you feel like you see when you think these things is visual memory

[Anonymous No.3809445]

>>3809351
You have visual memory, it's probably just not very refined yet. You gain it by carefully examinating and deconstructing nature (aka studying). What makes up the 'thing'? What forms? What textures? It's all snippets of information you remember and put together. Go from big to small. For example: A human has arms. Arms have an upper arm, a lower arm and a hand. A hand has a back/palm and five fingers. Each finger has 3 bones, where each bone is 2/3rds the size of it's adjacent one called phalanges. Each phalanx has the shape of a convex cylinder, has a flat tendon on top and a concave muscle underneath. This information lets you draw a finger. Imagine what you could draw from your memory if you also knew about the rest of the hand, the arm, etc.

It's just learning. You don't have to know fancy names or learn by book. It's enough to pay close attention to form and proportion when drawing. Break complex things up into more papatable information and learn one thing at a time.

[Anonymous No.3809611]

>>3809351

If you play a piano song over and over again, it starts becoming easy, almost second nature, burned into your fingers and reproducable at will. After enough time you can do it blindfolded. People call this "Muscle memory".

If you practice cooking a dish over and over, you begin to master how to make that dish taste delicious and mix it up later. After enough time you gain very nuanced control of how it tastes, just by intuition and experience.

If you practice drawing something over and over, you begin to remember the high level designs and concepts which appear over and over in example after example of the thing you're drawing. Eventually you can, with a much shorter exposure to the subject and reference, make drawings of that thing effortlessly.

This process is called "Visual memory"

[Anonymous No.3809616]

>>3809355
>>3809445
>>3809611
Good posts. Saved.

[Anonymous No.3809643]

>>3809616
Have you saved any ligma?

[Anonymous No.3809658]

>>3809643

What's Ligma?

[Anonymous No.3809660]

>>3809658
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[Anonymous No.3809883]

>>3809660
kys cretin