Drawing from your imagination would require TC to draw upon knowledge that he has gathered from previous drawings, which he doesn't have much of. He is a beginner and needs to study value, lighting, composition, anatomy, perspective, etc. Drawing from life every day will help a lot. Targeted study, like drawing 100 hands in different poses, learning where the muscles attach, what bones are where and why that causes light to land a certain way on the human body, can help a lot too. Copying Pokemon or anything from a video game is not ideal. It's not useless..it's better than nothing of course. Just not ideal if he really wants to learn in a short amount of time. You can draw from imagination as an exercise to test how much you have retained and to gauge your understanding.
The art is still bad. It's like saying someone who is 15 with a driver's permit is a great driver simply because he's learning. No, not really.
...What? How does that relate to what I said?? Yes the art is not good (I agree, that is fact). Because TC is learning doesn't make him good yet. Obviously? What? I don't get why I was quoted here.
Andromicus posted...
The first thing you really have to learn or really unlearn is to stop drawing with your brain.
To elaborate on this...as I don't think you fully explained your point. Lotta times we have a picture in our head of what something is supposed to look like. Not what it actually looks like. Iirc the book I recommended actually has a chapter on that phenomenon. One exercise in it has you drawing something upside down so that your brain doesn't attach these misconceptions to your drawing.
TheGreatNoodles posted...
This is probably not gonna help my case, but I have been drawing for quite awhile.
It absolutely will not help your case. The proof is in the pudding. People will say "Oh I've been drawing for this many years." when in reality, how much of that time was spent drawing? How many drawings have you done? Of what subjects? For how many hours? You can have a person on the street creating relatively the same piece of artwork for years and not show much improvement. At the end of the day, no one will be looking at your degrees. They'll be looking at your portfolio. You need to study and practice.
Doctor Foxx posted...
The most benefit I had from art classes was practicing techniques that were crucial for understanding how to break things down to paper. That meant hundreds of drawings of things I didn't care about so I could better understand what I did want to draw
It's tedious but essential for improvement
Preach
But he's clearly not drawing a previously-existing picture of a Pokemon in his most recent image. He's drawing something from his imagination, using Pokemon imagery.