So when I first started out doing art and really getting serious about it I was in high school and I
had a really great art teacher and shadows try and get me to draw from life and I never want to do it
because in my head I thought you know I'm going to be a concert artist.
I don't need to do the still life of super boring right.
I'm going to be drawing stuff out of my imagination I can create my own ideas but unfortunately I was
wrong and I wish I would have listened to her drawing from life is really really important especially
if you want about a drop of your head.
And here's why we don't ever really make anything up even when we have dreams.
Everything that our brain shows us in our dreams is something that we've seen somewhere before in real
life.
Our brains don't just make up the faces of people in our dreams each stranger we come across in a dream
is a real person that we've seen somewhere before.
When it comes to drawing you're not really going to be able to invent anything that no one has ever
seen before because everything you're drawing in some way has been seen somewhere by something else
and you're just taking a bunch different ideas and kind of mashing it together.
Right.
So learning to be able to draw from life and to build up the sort of visual library is going to be really
powerful for helping you as an artist.
Even your favorite artists out there I can almost guarantee that even if they draw sci fi fantasy type
stuff and none of it actually exists in the real world but they have spent countless hours and tons
of time and tons of drawings and paintings studying real life.
OK.
So if you want to be good at sketching from your imagination start by drawing real life and if you want
to be good at drawing creatures then you should be drawing a lot of real life animals.
You want to be good at drawing made up buildings you should be drawing a lot of building studies if
you want to be good at vehicles or real vehicles right.
All of these things are going to help you to understand how perspective how form how different textures
things like that actually look in real life because as you draw them you really have to make a study
of them right.
You really have to look at it and take it in to be able to understand.
Right.
So the more you do that the more it's going to start to build up your visual library right.
You're going to get more information so that you can store it for later use.
So that next time let's say you did a study of a crocodile at the zoo.
Next time you're drawing a dragon or something with scaly skin you can pull up that information that
you reference about the crocodile and now apply it to your creature and it's going to look that much
more real.
So it might not be that fun.
It might not be that glamorous too but I promise that if you take the time to do studies from real life
and do sketches from real life that it will improve your of the rest of your driving skills so that's
it for this lecture.
Let's jump into it.
I'll see you guys in the next one.