05-04-2016, 02:09 AM
you mean drawing something directly from your imagination with no ref?
eh, from what i've gathered outside of sketches and the like it's never usually a good idea to go fully without ref(Though I know there are some artists who've trained themselves not to I think they used to use ref), I think there's a balance it can't be too much ref so that you're copying but you need enough for your visual library, studying without application does'nt tend to build it up as fast.
I'm just as guilty of this though haha, whenever I draw from imagination I notice everything going wrong and it demotivates me a lot so I think I go back to studying because it feels safer, i've been trying to get into the habit of doing some imaginitive sketching more often but I do tend to get back to focusing on studying a bit too much.
Maybe just as an experiment try and see how far you can take a piece without ref, then gather all the ref you'd need for it and fix the piece with it?, i'd also suggest that for whatever you're studying to try to apply it even a little to something imaginary at the end of the day, for example that helmet study you did, try drawing an imaginary helmet and applying anything you learned about reflective surfaces.
eh, from what i've gathered outside of sketches and the like it's never usually a good idea to go fully without ref(Though I know there are some artists who've trained themselves not to I think they used to use ref), I think there's a balance it can't be too much ref so that you're copying but you need enough for your visual library, studying without application does'nt tend to build it up as fast.
I'm just as guilty of this though haha, whenever I draw from imagination I notice everything going wrong and it demotivates me a lot so I think I go back to studying because it feels safer, i've been trying to get into the habit of doing some imaginitive sketching more often but I do tend to get back to focusing on studying a bit too much.
Maybe just as an experiment try and see how far you can take a piece without ref, then gather all the ref you'd need for it and fix the piece with it?, i'd also suggest that for whatever you're studying to try to apply it even a little to something imaginary at the end of the day, for example that helmet study you did, try drawing an imaginary helmet and applying anything you learned about reflective surfaces.
