/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5019807
Draw from imagination.

Doesn't matter if you're /beg/. The artist that chooses to neglect his tendency towards the undefined creativity in favor of realistic accuracy will always end up with the death of their artistic soul. Many fall into this trap by thinking they can just "be creative" after their mastery of accuracy without realizing they sacrificed their imagination in order to attain it.

Every time you carefully copy a still life, precisely measure proportions with your pencil tip or grids, or methodically plot perspective in a perfectly calculated manner, you're killing the soul that would enable you to be creative in the first place. Whenever you do these things or similar, you are telling yourself "my mind cannot wander nor experiment as I must instead see what's before me, and only what's before me, exactly as it is; no more or less". And through the years of doing so that's exactly what you become: no more or less; An entity in the artistic limbo empty of any spark to create what is not there. You forsake the ability to be the god of your mind for the sake of being a mirror of your reality.

Accuracy and realism should support your imagination, and how you practice should encourage such. Any approach that would instead make these two clash will kill your soul eventually.

>>4111605
I don't have to draw everything I like looking at. I can enjoy something like this, even though it's not what I want to make. I can see value in drawing unidealized cartoon characters as well.