Is drawing intuition something you either have or you don't?>think I'm intermediate with 7 years of daily drawing>can draw most things I set my mind to, and to a level I like>comfortable with fundies and stylization>see something basic like pic related>realize it was drawn freehand with no sketch or preparationNow I obviously understand the perspective here and the finger volume and the general shapes etc and I'd have no problems drawing something like this, but I'd need a sketch, and some erasing/fixing, and maybe a style reference, and also balance the overall composition by flipping the image etc I realized this is the sort of drawing that I'm not even close to drawing freehand with no preparation even though I try to do ~30-60 minutes of practice of it every day, is it just intuition? Something you're born with and can't built no matter how much you try?
Good question
I can tell you what it's like for me. As far as imagination, as in coming up with such a design, is concerned I think some people have it easier, some less; you can practice. But putting it to paper, it really makes a difference when I have a very clear idea of what I want, by idea I mean as exact a picture of the subject in my mind as I can conjure. Then I just see it on the paper when I'm drawing. It's almost like I'm tracing it off the paper when I'm drawing and you can practice this as well. I used to do it on and off until I noticed, and then I went all in on it. I know things come out better when I do but the more the details the bigger the effort
>>7917941Would you say that's an ability you've always had or something that you trained?I basically can't visualize anything beforehand, I always need to work out the drawing in front of me and I feel like it results in worse energy than if I could do it intuitively
>>7917911>30-60 minutesWell that isn’t very much practice.Anyway, even if you can train your intuition somewhat through practice, there’s undoubtedly a strong genetic component to it. I thought that mental rotation tasks might correlate to drawing ability (they’re known to correlate with IQ, and men consistently perform better than women, all of which points to a strong genetic component) but apparently artists aren’t much better on these tests than average so idk.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_rotation>>7917941I am so freaking jealous of you. I don’t have aphantasia but I think my mental visualization is somewhat weak overall and I don’t see it improving much. I will never be able to do this. Fuck
It's a doodle, anon.I always say you should think of shapes first, not construct everything meticulously. And sometimes it's good to draw automatically and directly when things are feeling stiff. Most of what you make will be not good but it primes you to think less literally. You're drawing shapes. Cartoons are big shapes first details second/third. It's better to draw a tree trunk for an arm than to draw the anatomy separately, even if you know how to.Right is a direct doodle, left is based on a pencil sketch. Both are kinda loose and not really meant to look fantastic/presentable. You build up new visualization by making a bunch of crap first, and gradually refining it.
>>7918092>>7918104I think I've always had it, but I realized it was something I could do consciously quite late and even though I've practiced, because of how much more focused I have to be, I still don't do it all the time. In fact, quite often I find that my draftsmanship is far inferior to the quality of the images that are in my head.I always say if you can write, you can draw. Whenever you write, you have a picture in your mind of what a perfect letter, for example "a", looks like and you reproduce it on paper almost perfectly every time, so I'm convinced that everybody that can write has this ability to see things the way I do. Again, having more talent just means seeing more clearly to begin with; you can practice.
>>7918143Also, if there is any interest, I know a few exercises, advice and directions that I've collected both from great artists, teachers and my experience that I believe would benefit anybody trying to work on their imagination
>>7918141Yeah but your doodles look like shit whereas the OP would make for a great sticker or funny manga panel
Just work through this book. Draw with shapes and draw with intention.Quick sketching people from life is at least half of how you improve at it too. You can see how a pro animator plans a scene here:https://andreasdeja.blogspot.com/2013/06/hercules.html
>>7918151It's like you didn't even read my post>the point is to just let things happen without judgmentMaybe I should have said it that way
