I've got a question to all you ARTIST's and art experts?

Question

If you look at a picture for a certain amount of time. Then stop looking at it and try to draw from memory and you keep practicing on that will you become a better artist or even more better at remembering things

Answer 1

sure but if you're visual , that won't be much of a challenge

Answer 2

Art isn't neccesarily about memorizing something to repetitiously draw. There's nothing wrong with looking at a picture or live subject every step of the way. What is important, however, is UNDERSTANDING the subject, it's not an apple, it's not a tree, it's not your sister, it's light and form and shapes. Interpreting that light and form and shape in a two dimentional surface is the glorious challenge. Yes, you must memorize your subject, but not so that you can draw it from memory a month from now, but so that you can CORRECTLY interpret that apple or tree onto the paper to create something more than just a line with red coloring inside it. Perhaps you may even wish to take a drawing or painting class, although I would reccomend a drawing class first. Memorization isn't the key, the key is understanding the subject and light and dark and color, and enjoying the PROCESS. You don't draw or paint for the end product only, you do it for the process that is involved, to immerse your whole being into creating something new and exciting, something yours, YOU interpreted it, you enjoy it. Enjoy the process, revel in your mistakes and learn from them, be on your own side, but be your own critic as well. Then you will be a great artist.

Answer 3

This is a matter of personal opinion but as an art teacher, I prefer to facilitate the "creative process" rather than "practiced" skills of my students. Most people can repeat an exercise until the end result is close to flawless but I would not consider the completed work to be art in its truest form. It is the "process of creating" which allows for ideation,visualization, and revision that most benefits the artist. Art as a process is less concerned with the learned skills which result in flawless work. The completed work is not as important as the experience of creating.

Answer 4

Yes. Drawing and painting is about learning to see. Really seeing feeds the habit of remembering - although memory fixes only the most critical elements of an image in the mind. So art, as distinct from merely drawing or painting, is largely a matter of selecting those elements, to make the visual more powerful. I think it was Matisse who said "Art is not representation - it is re-presentation" -- seeing something as you haven't seen it before, more deeply, more significantly.

Answer 5

You will probably fine tune your memory- but I wouldn't say you would become a better artist. The best way to develop your artistic skills is to copy other artists' work. This is "taboo" in todays societly, but until quite recently, artists were taught to be artists by copying. This was how most all of the Renaissance artists learned how to draw, paint, and sculpt.

Answer 6

If u practice u will most certainly become a better artist, but it takes a lot of time.
And it does not make a gr8 difference with memory power.
again it takes a lot of time

Answer 7

i had to do that in school once. i learned that pretty much the main thing you learn is shape, shading, and contour lines. i kinda look at pictures differently then some tho. this process makes me look at pictures with form to make me want to give it the personality it needs. for example, if you look at a picture of a flower such as a rose, you look at its curves and wilts ( or at least i do) and then i kinda ask myself wat is so different about it that would make me want to put effort into making this a piece of art. and those answers are wat give you hints to remembering such detail. dont think im wierd, but it works lol

Answer 8

yes