First Sketchbook

[Lannia]

Welcome to daggers! Im new here too. Really awesome sketchbook so far! I can relate to the whole lacking in the imaginative department. I use to draw pretty much all from imagination when I was young. Then I stopped drawing for a long time. I took some drawing classes in college and learned how to draw from reference. Now thats all I can do pretty much. You really have to bite the bullet and draw from imagination to get good at drawing from imagination.

One thing I've been doing recently is to do a page of reference sketches then on the next page try to draw the same thing from memory and change the perspective and poses a little. Its tough when all you've been doing is copying but eventually if you do it enough you'll increase your visual library.

Thanks Hypnagogic_Haze! I'll be heading over to check out your sketchbook too, sounds like we're on the same path. And that is a really awesome tip I might need to try sometime...