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Anonymous Wed 16 Jan 07:45:11 2019 No.3769922 View Reply Original Report

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Is there a specific exercise that can help with maintaining mental images of contours/positions/shapes/whatever? I feel like I get flashes of parts of images that are real, workable, and transferable to a 2d medium, except they vanish in like half a second after I get like a single line down and I can't call them back.

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Anonymous Wed 16 Jan 2019 07:56:08 No.3769927 Report

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>>3769922
drawing helps

idk

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idk Wed 16 Jan 2019 08:06:05 No.3769934 Report

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For me, the specific exercise is learning construction. I'm beg so take this with a grain of salt. Maybe I'm just forever bad at maintaining a mental image, but I'll just think of something, and try to describe to myself what I'm trying to draw.
For example, I'll say to myself, it's a sitting pose, and loosely decide on a body type, and then start constructing that until I get close enough to that mental image I had.
Don't try to just project an image from your brain if you can't, deconstruct it by thinking of the attributes of your mental image and reconstruct that onto the paper.

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Anonymous Wed 16 Jan 2019 08:09:16 No.3769935 Report

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>>3769934
I'll give this a shot
>>3769927
wow thanks I hadn't thought of that

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Anonymous Thu 17 Jan 2019 17:07:50 No.3771843 Report

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>>3769922
Drawing from imagination.

Try following a rule to NEVER copy anything.
Wanna draw from a reference? Sure just rotate it 90 degrees and draw from a different angle.
Like a face? Draw that face with a different expression.
Like a building? take a picture and draw that building from a different angle.

Drawing from reference isn't simful in itself, but 99% of the faggots just copy what they see and call that "reference". Copying doesn't really help you develop any abilities such as mental rotation and shit.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Jan 2019 17:10:52 No.3771850 Report

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>>3769922
That's perfectly normal. And honestly it barely changes if at all no matter what level of professional you are. That's why you study objects and perspective if you want to draw from your imagination. Because if you could 'see' things in your head perfectly and for long periods of time, you would only need to learn how to copy.

Copying art is pretty easy to learn, you can do it just with a lot of time and practice. I wish it worked this way but it doesn't.

Even people with brain disorders like Stephen Wiltshire, its not really known if they 'see' what they are drawing or if it's some other form of memory they are using.

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Anonymous Thu 17 Jan 2019 17:12:52 No.3771854 Report

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Although I should actually correct myself. I'm not 100% sure on that last statement, maybe Stephen Wiltshire HAS told whether he sees it or not in his head. But don't expect a regular person to have this ability, most artists definitely do not.

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