Fantasy drawing from imagination

Description

In 2013, long before I started with the figure paintings, there was an attempt to draw purely from my imagination.

I wanted to create a story and had some ideas for individual scenes.

Without searching the internet, without reference images and without object-training, I just created the shapes.

I have noted that it works better with a small canvas. So I used DinA7.

The whole thing was an experiment (exactly for one day) and I only created a few images.

While drawing I quickly realized, that I felt very ‘insecure’ and that it would be reasonable to work with figure-rules.

Thus, this image is the starting point for my further attempts to draw figures by construction.

Thoughts

When I compare the different approaches to drawing my pictures, I would distinguish three methods:

• Drawing the exact content – here an exact replicating of a (foto-)scene is drawn.
• Drawing by rules - here I use learned rules and reference material to construct the drawing
• Drawing by ‘inner vision’ – here I draw only from my imagination (no helpers, no object-training)

The differences between these versions are so clear for me, that I wonder, why I can’t read it in common drawing-books.

If you want to compare the skills of artists, it is not useful to compare a drawing form one of these methods with a drawing from another. That’s, because the artist did something completely different.

About the drawing

I've come up with a sci-fi story in which a crystal transfers its energy to a 'chosen' person.

The picture illustrates how the person touches the crystal and takes it out off its anchoring.

I've drawn the figure completely free. The environment was sketched with vanishing point rules (I remembered some of the construction-rules from a long time ago – I used no ruler).

To ensure, that the image does not remain a simple pencil line drawing, I scanned it, inverted with the computer, and then developed the shading with a computer-mouse.

I think, this is the fist time my ellipses are halfway right (what a moment in history)

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Steps

final drawing

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