| It's important to know the difference between drawing | | | | you want to draw, but find that you have problems |
| from memory and drawing from imagination, although | | | | drawing it out on paper. What's the problem here? |
| both have the implication that you'll be drawing from | | | | Well, you may be lacking the drawing ability to express |
| your head. | | | | yourself well in a drawing. |
| Drawing from memory basically means that you're | | | | That can be easily solved. Simply spend time to |
| trying to recall some real image that you've captured | | | | strengthen your drawing foundation so that you can |
| with your brain in the past and trying to draw or paint | | | | express yourself better with a pencil and your problem |
| them out. | | | | will be solved. |
| Drawing from imagination is a little bit different. | | | | But let's say you now want to recall an image and |
| Imagination means there's an image, which could be | | | | draw it on paper, but somehow, even though you have |
| completely fictitious like a fantasy being, that you want | | | | really great skills, you still couldn't get it right. What could |
| to draw out. | | | | be the problem here? |
| So one is a real image, while the other can be a | | | | The problem lies in the source of the reference image, |
| completely fictitious image. Why is it important to know | | | | which is the one captured in your head. Because your |
| the difference? Many members on my site ask the | | | | mind has skewed the image somehow, the information |
| same question, and when I sat down to really think | | | | will be transferred to your drawing paper. |
| about this, I think many people are actually confused as | | | | Unfortunately, there's no easy solution to this problem, |
| to why they can't transfer the images in their head on | | | | except that unless you have photographic memory, |
| to a piece of paper. | | | | which must be trained from young, you'll find it hard to |
| Knowing the difference between the two types of | | | | capture an entire image exactly the way it is in your |
| drawing would be a good start to clear up the | | | | head. |
| confusion. Let's say you have a fictitious image that | | | | |