Drawing From Your Imagination
84
Drawing from your imagination and other helpful resources
|
Teaching Young Children to Draw: Imaginative Approaches to Representational Drawing
Price: $54.31
List Price: $44.95 |
|
Beyond Architecture: Imaginative Buildings and Fictional Cities
Price: $40.94
List Price: $65.00 |
|
Modern Painters: Volume 2. Of the Imaginative and Theoretic Faculties
Price: $23.99
List Price: $23.99 |
|
How to Draw People (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
Price: $2.01
List Price: $4.95 |
|
How to Draw 101 Animals
Price: $1.93
List Price: $4.99 |
|
How to Draw
Price: $2.86
List Price: $4.99 |
|
How to Draw Flowers
Price: $2.36
List Price: $4.99 |
|
How To Draw 101 Funny People
Price: $2.65
List Price: $4.99 |
|
How to Draw Dogs (How to Draw (Dover))
Price: $0.33
List Price: $2.95 |
Drawing from your imagination
Drawing from your imagination is a skill and a fairly straight forward one to master, firstly you have to be confident with your own drawing ability and art style to such a degree that you yourself believe that you can draw anything your mind thinks of, without the aid of visual references.
First steps
Think of something you know you can draw, off the top of your head and start by thinking what you usually had trouble with when you first learnt to draw it, an example could have been that the proportions were all wrong or the actual drawing didn't translate very well from what you intended.(meaning it didn't look realistic enough)
Next try to work towards overcoming these problems or obstacles in drawing, there are various ways to do this, and I shall show you how:
Proportions and structures of many things are related in many ways and to percieve these as equal we need to have had some visual reference to these at some point in our lives, therefore when starting to draw anything for the first time, it is okay and also important to have a visual picture or photograph of what you are trying to draw in front of you( this is not termed as cheating, as you are not sitting an exam, you are merely learning yourself)
By viewing images and then taking mental images of the real life stuff around us you will gain a better understanding of drawing more realistically and more natural, and then go on to build a wealth of underlying drawing and observational techniques that will be of great value to you later on in your artistic ventures.
Next steps
Finding what you're good at drawing is an important step, because more often than not you will find yourself or need to specialize in a particular area of field and then build upon it.
For example, you start to perfect your area of expertise in comic book drawing and build on what you love to draw like monsters and superheroes and get on with researching every minute aspect of your creations and others to maximise your knowledge range.
Drawing is fun, so why not let yourself be free in what you want to draw, just have faith in your ability and practice at every available moment you get.
So again if you have a general understanding of the drawing basics then you will go far and create what you want to all the time, additionally I also find that looking at your most favourite artists work can inspire you even more to be better at drawing and painting, especially if it is in the area you most want to work in aswell.
For me I love the drawings and paintings of Boris Vallejo, John Howe, Frank Frazetta and Larry Elmore to name a few, of course there are numerous other ways in which you can gain inspiration for your drawings like listening to your most favourite music albums (Korn for me!) watching exciting films loaded with special effects, or just simply reading a book for which your imagination is left to wander to wherever it goes.
Other drawing resources:
Wonderful Fantasy Tree Demon Art And Other Imaginative Art
Other Drawing Art Hubpages
- How To Draw A Flaming Skull
Skulls, the popular emblem of the pirate or a great tattoo design entwined with tribal swirls and frilly design elements. This is a hub page simply on how to draw a flaming skull, simple enough right? ... - A life too busy drawingstuff
Over the many years I have been around on this polluted planet, I have been drawing for as long as my feeble mind can remember, usually I gravitate to the more darker side of art, such as demons and horror,... - How to draw fantasy art - a rough artists guide
Fantasy art is a rather personal subject for me and one I can teach to those who want to learn or see how this type of stuff is created from start to finish, there are lots of books on this type of subject... - Drawing a demon By Artist Wayne Tully
When starting to draw your monsters and demons, you can do a little exercise called drafting, this is simply a process where you begin to sketch loosely without having a clear idea what you are drawing in the... - Drawing for Children: 8 Myths
Drawing with children can be one of the most satisfying and fun activities for children. Unfortunately most children shy away from drawing due to bad experiences they may have had or because they can't draw... - Kolam - South Indian Floor Drawing - 3
In some of my earlier hubs, I introduced some traditional floor drawings known as kolams. Those kolams were drawn based on dots in specific grid patterns as guides. Kolams can also be drawn guided by... - How To Use A Grid To Make Drawing Simple
Most of the time I prefer to draw free hand, but using a grid to help draw a picture can be very useful. Grid drawing is very helpful because it allows the artist to focus on one block of the picture at a... - Charcoal Drawing
The photos here are My Artworks in School...more than 10years ago. I kept it because for me it is very important, during my art class I realized that I have a talent in drawing, I may not be able to pursue... - How To Ink A Drawing
Do you fancy yourself as a bit of an artist? We have all done sketches over the years but what to do when you want to take it to the next level. Well you will probably want to ink those drawings. So just how... - Computer enhanced drawing
Lately I have been going through all my old sketch books and drawing pads, finding drawings that I forgot about and some that I really like. I started taking pictures of them as a record but then began...
Imaginative Art Drawing
PrintShare it! — Rate it: up down flag this hub
Drawing From Your Imagination Comments Please
Excellent!
Is that fella your 'Fight Club' guy? (the person you really want to be?!!)
Wayne it's obvious you're talented and this article is so interesting. Usually if you write you also draw...you know the whole creative package. I used to be an avid artist...somehow got away from it. I drew some art for the walls of my apartment a few years ago, never picked up the interest I had but I am a fiend for other artist - smile.
Well written. The only thing I would add to it is that if you have trouble drawing something you love without photographs, draw it several times. Or several dozen times. Or several hundred. Eventually you'll change the photos around to the point you can do it off your head, that's how I drifted into drawing from imagination well enough to tolerate the results.
Absolutely it is not cheating to use reference photos -- the next step from being able to copy photos is to be able to combine references, and most realist artists combine references and use references all the time. Including some of the greats you mentioned -- though sketching from life is good too and teaches different things, and they did that too.
Thanks for your great reply, I like great replies like yours, full of interest and experience, drawing is learning and sketching is the basis of drawing, I like to pick up new ways of drawing things all the time.
I am currently using reference material such as photographs, to further my understanding of proportion and figure drawing, it fascinates me!
Cheers for your reply!
This is a wonderful Hub! Drawing from imagination was always something I was not the best at; I definitely prefer doing portraits. You are great at drawing! Do you have more to show? :)
Yes I have a Squidoo lens that shows a fair bit of my art http://www.squidoo.com/demonsaredark
I always admired those who have the talent to draw from their imagination because I tend to need a reference picture at the least.
I love drawing stuff out of my head, because it could be a good exercise of sometimes creating some cool stuff. I use reference pictures for special projects.
Cheers for commenting Sweets!
you suck copy and paste if you agree
thanks for your comments!
Great article and great points -- all true. I have reached a point where some favorite subjects aren't hard to draw from imagination, such as trees. I can do trees wherever I want them and get fairly plausible ones. Cats, I'm starting to get there, especially since I started doing quick gesture drawing of my cat more often in various poses.
Half the time I try to draw him and he'll move, so 3/4 of the sketch is from my immediate memory of how he looked when I started. Yet the more often I sketch him from life, the better my cats in general come out. I used to do dragons years and years ago and sold quite a few but was never satisfied with them. I wouldn't tell the buyers that, because I didn't want to spoil their enjoyment.
Your demons are spectacular. I can see the Boris influence and the comics influence and your style is very polished. You could do a great graphic novel if you wanted -- if you can get regular people as well as the monsters, of course, or the story was all monsters. Even if you have trouble with less extreme figures and faces, I can see how a good story involving nothing but extreme demons and heroes could work well. Civilians aren't always part of it, not if the story's set in Hell or a dungeon or something.
Thanks for your Comment Robert!
There was a time were I had a plan of quite a few graphic novels and such and I still do, but it's become a chore to finish them as I'm always chopping and changing the stories and different pages, but I'd say there are two that are nearly finished called Witches Evil and Demon Tower and it's these that I have focused on as I've had the stories in my mind for at least 12 years!
As I draw a lot of tattoo designs I suppose that has took the time away from me gettin these graphic novels done....anyway just keep plodding on!!
Drawing from imagination is one of my favourite subjects. I think it could be an extra step for you, if you leave your figurative thoughts behind and start investigate abstraction! It's just breaks up all the boundaries what the work with figures causing. Keep up the good work! Andras
Thanks scheinandras!
I have dabbled in abstract art as it is almost dream like and almost basic of art styles that I may just paint some more abstract pieces.
I've drawn from images inside my head for as long as I can remember, and you aptly demonstrate that it isn't "wrong" or a "cheat" to not use references from the world around us, or to actually ignore them in favor of what we see in our mind. It does seem that you draw from the darker side of the images in your mind, but I tend to do that myself--I am more apt to draw demons or monsters than "imagine" a sunset or flowers (or whatever the "lighter side" means. Good hub, I enjoyed it.
Very well explained and really awesome images
Thanks...lots more to write about!!
here's a thing I like to do as practice,I will buy three different Magazines Vogue,GQ,home and gardens,whatever its a random excercise,I'll start with the cover and draw everything from cover to cover,even the stuff I don't like.I practice Three nights a week mon,weds,fri-day. on the other days I draw from my imagination.
Cheers now Bill!
That sounds like a concise and self disciplined method of working and I suppose it would help you in the long run by drawing or rather forcing yourself to draw the stuff you don't like on magazine covers.
I'm hoping to write and draw comics one day.it is not that easy to be a comic book artist (alot of people THINK it is!)but with comics you have to be able to draw everything that exists!and even things that don't exist!Anatomy,perspective,backgrounds,humans,animals,aliens,zombies,monsters,cars,trains,planes,planets,spaceships,costumes,clothes,hair,people sitting,people walking,people talking,laughing,crying,sleeping,fighting what ever the story may bring,so thats why I do the magazine thing three nights a week.I also buy a how to draw comics book every month (christopher hart has some good ones)right now I'm practicing some things from Tim Nguyens book on drawing comics,story telling,pacing,etc...but when I'm not drawing from a book It's strictly Imagination.I would like to put in three or four hours a day but I can only get in about thirty minutes to a hour a day right now,within the coming months I will start posting some of my stuff on my hubs,you'll be the first to know.peace,and keep drawing.
ClicksnAds says:
3 years ago
That's a pretty wicked lookin' dude, Wayne.
You must have my share of talent too. :) lol