Imagination to Paper Intro
This blog is intended to help raising star artists to improve, find their style and empower them. Everything you find here will be notes, revelations and battles from my own experiences. And I want to start with the toughest topic of all…
“I see it in my head, but how do I get it onto paper?!”
Above was (and sometimes still is) the greatest challenge I faced (face) growing as an artist. Our minds retain everything we see—we just don’t recall every detail. If we did our brains might explode like the aliens from Mars Attacks. Yikes. So, figuring our how to distinguish what’s in our minds and get it on paper (or Photoshop or Sai or what have you). For simplicity sake, I’ll be referring everything to paper and pencil.
You see a beautiful or kick-A or epic perfect in your head. It could be original or canon characters. You see their faces super clearly, their poses, the wind billowing through their hair. You sit down to capture the image, fleeting or not. You start to sketch and it’s going along well, until you start to hit bumps in the roads. Uneven eyes, too-large of heads, whatever it might be that has you realizing the image in your head is not what’s bleeding from your hand.
We’re going to work on mind-hand coordination step by step, helping you to level up those skills!
Stay tuned for…
Lesson 1: Facial Expressions