Hey world. Anyone wanna have a conversion about #art? Cos I do. First of all, I'm learning to draw. I'm a couple years in, and still fairly terrible, but that's ok. I like the process. Second, I have aphantasia, or compete lack of a mind's eye. So every single thing I draw must either be from reference or pure rite experience (I.e. I've drawn 100 eyes, My hand now knows how to make an eye.) So basically, I have absolutely no way to drow from imagination.
Hey @greermahoney I am teaching drawing from life and one of the most difficult thing to transmit to people is to stop drawing what they know and to actually look at what they see. Maybe your situation can help in a way, you could be a very good realist draftsman . I use exercices to have people draw automatically without their inner imagery to interfere. Gives really good results usually
As a training for shapes @greermahoney , you could try to force yourself to draw the spaces between objects, the negative spaces , preferably with a big tool or even a large brush and ink. Or even cut these in color paper with scissors and glue them on white paper. That really stops you from getting stuck in lines !
@nice Good ideas. I've done negative space, but really, not near enough.
@nice Yeah, I agree that's a potential upside. I don't yet have the skill to make things realistic. But I do map very quickly and fairly accurately, and I think that's because of the aphantasia. I have a hard time with "seeing" shapes, though. I'm very much "line, line, another line" - as opposed to shape and value.