Tips for DrawingFrom The Imagination

Understanding the process of drawing from our imagination can be the key for developing a drawing solid drawing process and practice. Whether this is how you draw, or how you want to be able to draw, this video will help fast track the best possible outcomes. Don't miss out this 15 minute investment in your drawing from your imagination future.

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[troygoggans]

Imagination my favorite way to draw, helps me calm down.

[Steviepinhead]

Professional comics illustrators draw upon a wealth of accumulated references: human figures, horses, elephants, lions, sharks, landscapes, buildings, vehicles. These are invaluable even when creating "imaginary" aliens, creatures, scenes, settings, castles, fortresses, starships, dragons.

[EnglishwithAlan]

great observations again, Stephen. I've always insisted I can't draw from imagination, but I also know with doubt that I'm one of the least observant and least detail oriented people I know. in fact, it's one reason I love to draw from observation, because it requires me to use "muscles" that don't usually get activated. and I discover new details about the world through the subject I'm looking at more intentionally than usual.

so I suspect that, at least for me, I'm right in saying I can't draw from imagination, but maybe not for the reasons I always thought. more for the reasons you just described -- I haven't stored enough details about what things actually look like to be able to draw them convincingly.

thanks for this and for provoking my thoughts.

[bayu_artist]

I can't believe carefully observation is such important part of our drawing journey 😮😮, One of famous artist Kim jung gi once said he was able to draw from imagination because he observed a lot, but i didn't get it back then thanks a lot Steve

[williammiller]

Fine, Stephen, I'm redundant! But you really are a heckuva teacher.
Given your architectural studies I assume you're familiar with Piranesi's "Carceri d'Invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)? I tried once to sketch his "The Arch with a Shell Ornament, " and the longer I messed with it, the more impressed I became with his original, and all of his carceri. The expanses he created, the overlapping structures and spaces and details he placed within them - people on suspended walkways a hundred feet up beneath vaulted ceilings, and a hundred meters distant, and all of it enclosed in a single structure - are just stunning.
You have two prints on your website, "Side Aisle, St Eustache, " and "Palais Garnier" that contain some of the same elements, and I've seen others of yours that do the same.
Am curious, have you ever tried to create from imagination a space or structure on such a scale as Piranesi? If you wanted to, how would you go about it? Just careful layout, measurement and markings? Or, rather, loose sketching of elements, arrangements, etc?
And how would you set up such an expansive but enclosed space? Simply by proceeding from close to far? Or by first establishing some of the features and scale at the greatest distance, then moving back and forth, near to far then near again, through the whole process?
Sorry for the wordiness. Would really like your thoughts on this. Or even another video!
Thanks!