Help please
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Anubhav Saini
Hello everyone today I want to share something that is really bothering me is that all these years I have mostly focussed on drawing from imagination and I had banged my head a lot on it and it really caused me a lot of mental strain and a lot of stresss on my head and it sucks and my art suffers because of this a lot I don't want to draw from imagination it so headaching it sucks
*Do we have memorise everything in our surrounding to be able to draw from imagination
*Do we need get the exact image that we have on our head on to the paper
These things really adds a lot of stress on my head and I wanna be free from it life also gets stressed because of it because I feel like I have to memorise everything in our surrounding every road every tree every house I gotta memorise them all and it gets so overwhelming on my mind it sucks and the worse part i gotta get the exact image on my head to paper which I never able to get and it goes my morale down and I feel really bad and it suckssss!!!!!!
Don't worry about memorising everything you see. Memorize how to draw building blocks - basic cube, sphere, cone etc and then you can build what you want like Lego. Don't be afraid of using reference. The internet/life is a great resource. Use it. Don't put so much pressure on yourself and enjoy the process of drawing :)
You are going through a rough time in art, and it sucks. First, to draw anything from imagination, is your mindset of art. Approaching art with a growth-mindset will definitely help. I used to struggle so much from drawing from imagination. But I changed my mindset and was liberated to explore without fear.
1. You don't have to memorize everything to draw from imagination. What you are drawing doesn't have to be exact, no one will notice the small mistakes unless the big picture is clear. Drawing consistently will help you remember the objects around you, and try not to constantly memorise everything you draw, it's painful.
2. You don't need the exact image in your head, as long as you know the basic proportions and the functions of the thing you're drawing. The minor details you forget, just make it up (that's imagination). If 'you' don't perfectly remember the minor details, 'people' wouldn't know you got it wrong.
I recommend watching the Proko videos of Kim Jung Gi, hope this helps. You will get better Anubhav, art takes many years to become "good".
@Jacob Granillo thank you very much it really relieved me from stress and by the way can you shed more light on the growth mindset in art