13 Jun 02:04
--Going back to the rusty car, I know what it looks like in my head. But, telling me to draw that at gunpoint, might as well shoot me right in the head!
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13 Jun 02:03
--i would say study it and right after that try to repeat it from memory/imagination the exact same thing
13 Jun 02:02
--I know how silk looks like in my head. I know how leather looks like. But laying those two down on the canvas was pretty darn hard
13 Jun 02:01
--fundamentals and reference should help to extract the vision not the other way around
13 Jun 02:00
--i remember before this skill was weaker i couldnt visualize as good, i think ill come up with some exscerises to try to improve this.
13 Jun 01:58
--But the thing about that is... What I have in my head doesn't always equate to something beautiful
13 Jun 01:56
--well lets say i say to you " a rusty red car next to a tree in autumn" do you see some sort of image in your head
13 Jun 01:55
--i dont know perhaps i jsut came up with some pseudoscience bullcrap or something , but i think its important, feel free to ignore this completely
13 Jun 01:55
--N.C. Wyeth: “Every illustration or painting that I have made in the last thirty years has been done from the imagination or the memory.”
13 Jun 01:54
--Wyeth quoted a teacher of his, Charles Reed of Boston in advising him: “the faculty of memory has become a lost function among American artists. He (Reed) blamed much of the lack of mood and imagination in their work to this fact.
13 Jun 01:53
--it hard to describe but if i draw with a blank mind not only the results look stiff its not even as enjoyable as when i actively engage with my mind
13 Jun 01:47
--meanwhile i once again trying to reminds myself to visualize in my head everything i draw. If i don't do that the results look bad everytime
13 Jun 01:44
--Hmm.. does it count if I draw a donut in even though it doesn't mean anything important in the narrative?