I draw very well but only if its copy someting im looking at, why cant i make up my own that are just as nice?

Question

ive been drawing for a long time adn can mimic a picture very well and make it look just like the original i really like drawing things like dragons and stuff like tjhat from the fantasy genre but when i try to draw something original its like i have no skill at it at all, why is that i would love to create and draw my own creative works what can i do?

Answer 1

Start by trying to draw things from real life. When you copy, someone else has figured out scale and perspective. You need to learn how to do this for yourself. Start by drawing simple objects, trying to get the perspective and the shading of what you see, trying to make the object look real on the page. As you get better at this, try more complex objects like plants and animals. When you learn how to bring real things to life on paper, then you will be able to draw the things that are in your imagination and make them look real. The skills you have developed by copying will help you, but in the end you have to tap into your right brain to see how to put your original ideas onto paper. With practice, you should be able to do this.

Answer 2

The only time you should give up drawing manga is when you really don't like drawing them in the first place, but as I can see you love drawing them so you really don't have to. How long you say? A month, a year, or probably a decade... more probably a decade. Skills takes a really long time to develop, but you won't notice a bit of it cause you'll be having fun doing it. How many hours you need to spend a day? As many hours as you LIKE (and that would probably means a large amount of time if you LIKE to draw a lot)! If I'm really like to draw and is that dedicated to improve I would probably draw every time. Copying? Its not bad to copy but your way of copying is bad! You should not be so dependent on copying as not be able to make an original art of your own. Copying for the artist, as you said, is to learn new techniques; not to make a replica of the original. When you copy, do try to learn the techniques used and then try to use what you learn for your original art. You can't draw on your tablet? Now is the time to learn how to. Just take it out and play with it and you'll be able to use it like its nothing. Your how to draw books will greatly speed up your progress as they are there to guide you but you'll never really improve by just reading them. Do put in practice what you think is really useful technique from those books and keep practising them till you absorb it as your own. And I give a little advice, Manga, how cartoonish it looks, still is grounded in reality so reality would still be the basis. Do try do draw the world around you, especially people, and it would greatly improve your work. being able to depict realism in cartoon/manga style should be a priority.

Answer 3

The reason why is probably (I'm guessing) that you never bothered to study anatomy or shapes and shading...

There is a science to vectoring a portrait, it involves geometry and mathematics principals... some simple and some quite intricate.

What you do is copy something that has already been labored over... and that involves good spatial ability which is a talent in and of itself so don't think yourself bad for it...

but to really be able to bring something from your imagination or duplicate the perspective of the Gods (so to speak) You have got to learn proportion and depth and texture and light... It is not easy and takes more time than just copying. Drawing is a science. Just ask Da vinci! He actually developed the formula for vectoring a field of vision and drawing as if you were recreating light and life itself... No one did it better! Study his works and Michelangelo... get yourself a human anatomy books and a landscape book, maybe on one shapes and light...

Sketch your own hands like the masters did... study the shapes and movements and bones and the joints and more importantly, the way the light plays on shapes...

The easiest thing you could do is never try... but the best thing you could do is learn by doing.. It is SO worth it!

Try drawing this, in black and white alone, no colors, a wine glass, half full of water on the edge of a glass table! and don't stop until you get it right. and by right, I mean that it looks like you could actually pick it up off the paper and drink it! You'll make THOUSANDS of errors before your brain learns how light reflects and dimension and depth come alive on a page.

Answer 4

Well.. I have the same problem.. But it can be VERY rewarding. My step dad is a tattoo artist, and I help design tattoos for people. He has a policy that he will never do the same tattoo twice, and that if a client comes in with a picture they want, he says that a minimum of 3 things must be changed from the original.. And thats where I come in.. I draw an exact copy in a decent size, and mess arround with it. So the next time you feel like drawing, and you find a picture that you want to draw.. GO AHEAD!! Just be sure to mix in a few of your own ideas too. If you dont like one or two things.. Feel free to change them. Remember.. If you change a minimum of 3 things, it becomes an original peice of work.. And you dont have the guilt of feeling like a sawed-off artist.. Good luck!

Answer 5

The best advice I can give to you is to draw what you see .Draw constantly .Carry a small sketchbook with you everywhere you go.Learn to sketch as well as draw.I wll term drawing here as being a sustained study and a sketch as a quick one used to get the essential overall facts and feeling of the subject.The more you do this the more your powers of perception will grow and so will your visual memory as well.Give this some time .Maybe some books on design will help too.This will essentially show you how you can play with visual elements and make up good pictures or modify what you see in front of you so the picture comes out looking better.And most important :Have fun!!!

Answer 6

You can mimic well, but it takes a lot of practice to do it without looking at something. Learn a drawing style for yourself and practice at least once a day. Soon enough you'll be able to draw decently without mimicking and a few months later you might be quite good.

Answer 7

A graphics program can really help you expand your creativity.
Always use copy-right free images or photos you have taken as the basis for any art you plan to publish or sell. (Dover Books has great selections of copyright free art to base dirivitive works on- link below.)

Scan and/or import images to "copy" into Adobe Illustrator. Use it to trace or copy the original image the way you would with a pen or pencil. (Draw with a mouse until you want to invest in a pen-style tablet) Once you've copied the image, apply effects, include brush strokes, make color changes. Let parts of the original image show through or cover it up entirely. Don't worry if the first few versions look simplistic or rough. Save those versions. You may see beauty and an artisitc use for those more primitive lines and shapes in a future project.

Apply effects on the original element you intend to 'copy" in Photoshop before bringing it into Illustrator–or after you have drawn it in Illustrator.

You can copy something by hand first then scan it in to color or add effects.

You can combine various drawings (using photoshop and/or illustrator) into one image to create entirely new scenes and compositions.

The beauty about experimenting with graphics programs is that you can never make a mistake! You can undo or save multiple versions so the sky is the limit.

Boris Vallejo a very famous successful Fantasy Painter is just like you. He "can only" paint from what he sees, so he uses costumes, props, draped seating etc, then photographs models playing with the stuff (often himself and his wife) and paints a copy of his favorite shots. Get your friends dressed in fantasy gear from a costume shop and use them as models to photograph.

For thousands of years some of the world's most talented and accomplished artists have been drawing what they see and all of their art is unique because they are drawing what they see they way they see it. You do have skill and a unique perspective that only you can have.

Answer 8

Just picture one thing in your mind that you would like to draw and keep it on your head. When you start just go along and add or take out something you don't like about a picture. Believe me it's easier to draw without a copy, because you don't have to follow anything.

Answer 9

Lots of people are like that, and then there are lots of people who can't draw anything they look at very well, but rock when it's from their imagination.

The key to success is to do it, and do it, and do it. In weeks, months, and years you will see an improvement. And if after years you don't see the improvement you wanted then you might want to get another hobby.

Answer 10

copying and drawing are two very different things my idea would be to study the item or use a model of like an apple when you draw then after awhile you will be able it see it inside your head and no longer need the model.