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Founder of Proko, artist and teacher of drawing, painting, and anatomy. I try to make my lessons fun and ultra packed with information.
LESSON NOTES
One of the most requested topics I get from artists is how they can learn to draw from imagination. Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to focus on in this demo. You’ll see me go through multiple stages during this drawing session. We’ll start by researching our subject (a chameleon), then do some warmup sketches from those references, and then finally finishing on a few sketches where we take the visual characteristics of our subject and simplify it using our imagination. If you enjoy this demo check out the premium course where we will continue to explore drawing from imagination and other fundamental drawing concepts.
Related Links:
Intro to Drawing Basics
Intro to Lines
How to Draw Confident Lines - The Tapered Stroke
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Here you go level 2! My sketching from imagination project demo. From studying the reference, to explorations, to final sketch.
Hooh, long session. Because I'm a noob, I picked the easiest props to draw from (the earlier attempt with the Mantis was unfortunate). I can see that it's hard for me to relax fully and use more expressive, searching and confident lines… I like everything so clean, damn. But nevertheless, I tried. Will let myself proceed in the course, at last. Today I'm proud of myself :}
I decided to challenge myself a bit more than the deer mouse I sketched and did a raven. I'm not sure how I feel about the final imagination drawing (the one by itself). I was trying to go for something dynamic. I've got a ways to go.
Tried my first attempt and I don't know what I draw ....second is from imagination but I can't imagine much so I just made some adjustments
I did my sketches of gorillas with attempts to give them expressions, like a thinking pose. Feedback would be helpful on areas I need to improve.
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19d
These are great. I love the expressions. One thing that helps is to continue to break down parts of the body into shapes. This will add structure to the character and make them feel more solid, and what's more solid than a gorilla! Keep it up.
I will repeat the exercise every X times. I have a hard time understanding and simplifying the forms.
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1mo
Cute cats! One thing I find helps with all 4 legged critters is to break the torso into 3 parts. The shoulders, the ribs, and then the hips. Cats are tricky because their spine can do wild bends! But that is also what makes them so fun to draw.
I tried this project one more time after watching the demo. Here are the results:
First two images are sketches from observation that I did to get the main characteristics of a Hyacinth macaw. The rest of them were my sketches from imagination. It was a really difficult project I have to say.
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1mo
These came out great!
I’m not confident enough to draw a chameleon from imagination just yet, but I’ll definitely give it another try later.
So I just followed along with the pictures provided. and made two imagination pieces after. I liked the exercise. Was lots of fun! Reflecting on what I can improve on, focusing on having better line quality. I noticed my line quality goes down when I am making something from imagination a bit.
Had a lot of fun playing with these, I will probably do much more animals in the future. The one from imagination is the bottom right
Did some more practice off the lesson video and afterwards as well. I tried to implement somebody's suggestion of using dynamic shapes, it was difficult but made for some interesting experiments. I feel like a lot of my drawing from reference is "safe" and feels stiff, so I want to get better at doing more interesting shapes and poses.
Did a few image combinations while watching this to keep up and practice at the same time
