Drawing from Imagination - Tips on Improving Visual Memory - Proko
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Date: 2022-03-14
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I am going to propose a perspective. Art manifests in many facets within our waking and dreaming lives, whether it being daydreaming or the chaotic maelstrom of natural sleep. The merging and weather like patterns of feeling ideas and memories have a way of distorting and destroying the commonplace reactions and processes that society has dominated our spirits. This state of existance is imagination at least to me. All of humanity's advancements have in a way been a venturing into this realm of disbelief. I am not hating or trying to gatekeep my beliefs as the way we universally accept this notion but if you think about it most flights of fancy i. e. books or films or cartoons for example would have never had the notions of being worth the perverbial time to be considered. The minion for example if we were to realistically fathom such a thing would be impossible to exist do to the gravitational heft the arms and legs protuding from its rather bulkly body would fail in the conventional fundamentals of science. Imagination for most artists is the acceptance to a degree of disbelief in the proven laws of reality. after such consideration the laws or rules should be stretched or forgotten to a certain degree. It confuses me when I come across those who desire to realistically attempt to realistically produce an imagined subject. I am not ranting but maybe clarifying where some of us are coming from when we say imagination. thank you.
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I am going to propose a perspective. Art manifests in many facets within our waking and dreaming lives, whether it being daydreaming or the chaotic maelstrom of natural sleep. The merging and weather like patterns of feeling ideas and memories have a way of distorting and destroying the commonplace reactions and processes that society has dominated our spirits. This state of existance is imagination at least to me. All of humanity's advancements have in a way been a venturing into this realm of disbelief. I am not hating or trying to gatekeep my beliefs as the way we universally accept this notion but if you think about it most flights of fancy i. e. books or films or cartoons for example would have never had the notions of being worth the perverbial time to be considered. The minion for example if we were to realistically fathom such a thing would be impossible to exist do to the gravitational heft the arms and legs protuding from its rather bulkly body would fail in the conventional fundamentals of science. Imagination for most artists is the acceptance to a degree of disbelief in the proven laws of reality. after such consideration the laws or rules should be stretched or forgotten to a certain degree. It confuses me when I come across those who desire to realistically attempt to realistically produce an imagined subject. I am not ranting but maybe clarifying where some of us are coming from when we say imagination. thank you.
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Sweaty
1. Look at something and try to draw it in a different angle, very useful if you have an actual items or 3D model to study from (Sketchfab)
2. Look at something for 5 minutes and then try to draw it purely from memory (do these exercises while analyzing where you went wrong)
3. Look at something for 5 secounds and then try to draw it purely from memory
4. Try to draw something you drew a week ago from memory.
5. Try to draw something from another room, where you'll have to study it and then go into another room to draw it, focusing only on the most important details.
6. Try to construct things purely from memory (try to construct things from reality)
7. Try to draw something from a blob. It doesn't need to have any specific shape but fill in that blob with line drawing of something you have studied (like faces, or bodies etc)
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1. Look at something and try to draw it in a different angle, very useful if you have an actual items or 3D model to study from (Sketchfab)
2. Look at something for 5 minutes and then try to draw it purely from memory (do these exercises while analyzing where you went wrong)
3. Look at something for 5 secounds and then try to draw it purely from memory
4. Try to draw something you drew a week ago from memory.
5. Try to draw something from another room, where you'll have to study it and then go into another room to draw it, focusing only on the most important details.
6. Try to construct things purely from memory (try to construct things from reality)
7. Try to draw something from a blob. It doesn't need to have any specific shape but fill in that blob with line drawing of something you have studied (like faces, or bodies etc)
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Zyto
I like this video that you're making, and I will consider it is that you're saying things as an opinion. A person that has a perfect imagery of imagination with only using their mind is able to draw things. To all is different maybe they can't. I'm one of those people that can have an image in their head up through their imagination and create something on a paper the same way; there's also a few others that also do the same thing.
Me personally: when I have an image in my head or not thinking about it, I can draw directly on paper. Everything that has been shown or half shown: I can know exactly what it looks like and I could draw it on paper, I have several of those drawings that came directly from my head.
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I like this video that you're making, and I will consider it is that you're saying things as an opinion. A person that has a perfect imagery of imagination with only using their mind is able to draw things. To all is different maybe they can't. I'm one of those people that can have an image in their head up through their imagination and create something on a paper the same way; there's also a few others that also do the same thing.
Me personally: when I have an image in my head or not thinking about it, I can draw directly on paper. Everything that has been shown or half shown: I can know exactly what it looks like and I could draw it on paper, I have several of those drawings that came directly from my head.
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Janine
wow, thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for! I dramatically increased my observational drawing skills, but I am starting to feel like this is cheating, and all I am drawing from imagination, it doesn't look much better than the stuff I did like ten or more years ago. But I think your exercises will help me get there.
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wow, thank you, that was exactly what I was looking for! I dramatically increased my observational drawing skills, but I am starting to feel like this is cheating, and all I am drawing from imagination, it doesn't look much better than the stuff I did like ten or more years ago. But I think your exercises will help me get there.
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RaeRae
Came for the kanga. Stayed for the tips. Did the roger rabbit and that blonde cartoon guy along with you. Really love the drawing -games- you suggested.
Also about that final character you drew; i could imagine his cranium tilts to help him see over and around his giant nose -
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Came for the kanga. Stayed for the tips. Did the roger rabbit and that blonde cartoon guy along with you. Really love the drawing -games- you suggested.
Also about that final character you drew; i could imagine his cranium tilts to help him see over and around his giant nose -
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handmade
I've always appreciated Proko's videos, but after seeing this - I appreciate him more as a man. I laughed out loud watching this. Watching an artist of Proko's caliber struggle like this publicly could very well salvage the careers of many young and struggling artists. Awesome.
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I've always appreciated Proko's videos, but after seeing this - I appreciate him more as a man. I laughed out loud watching this. Watching an artist of Proko's caliber struggle like this publicly could very well salvage the careers of many young and struggling artists. Awesome.
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Darwin
It really depends on what you're going for and when you started drawing from imagination. Drawing from memory isn't hard per se and it isn't the last thing you learn. Look at kids that love to draw. They are not struggling and they are not drawing from observation.
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It really depends on what you're going for and when you started drawing from imagination. Drawing from memory isn't hard per se and it isn't the last thing you learn. Look at kids that love to draw. They are not struggling and they are not drawing from observation.
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Zyto
It is similar to an idea. but it's totally different; it's usually an image that is directly right there and it's right there if you see it, or you don't see it. it's right there. And for me: I can draw it the exact same way as I see it in my head; it's an image.
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It is similar to an idea. but it's totally different; it's usually an image that is directly right there and it's right there if you see it, or you don't see it. it's right there. And for me: I can draw it the exact same way as I see it in my head; it's an image.
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---Wellaway
After I saw the kangaroo I laugh so hard HAHAHAHA
But I didn't look down on Proko
This stream actually inspire me that even Stan have his limitations
Thanks for this Proko
You have inspired so many beginner artists
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After I saw the kangaroo I laugh so hard HAHAHAHA
But I didn't look down on Proko
This stream actually inspire me that even Stan have his limitations
Thanks for this Proko
You have inspired so many beginner artists
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Jamie
I used to only draw from imagination, and I actually got pretty far, but eventually I got stuck and had to study.
I used to hate drawing from observation because I couldn't judge distances very well and it was uncomfortable.
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I used to only draw from imagination, and I actually got pretty far, but eventually I got stuck and had to study.
I used to hate drawing from observation because I couldn't judge distances very well and it was uncomfortable.
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