Can you draw a horse from memory? (And then post it in the thread) (lemmy.world)

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[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

[-] Skua@kbin.earth 9 points 3 months ago

As a fellow can't-visualise-anything-ist, it's possible to work around it! You just have to memorise a bunch of individual elements of the thing in question, elements that are individually simple enough to be remembered as descriptions. So like a horse's head is a sphere with a tapered cylinder on the front, the cylinder being about two thirds of the radius of the sphere narrowing to half the radius. Ish.

...or, like, use a reference. Drawing things from memory is not a skill I have suffered from lacking in my life

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

What I was implying was not that I couldn't draw a horse (I do art after all) but rather the fact that it's not truly recalling it from memory, which was what was asked.

[-] howrar@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

All the more reason to do it. I'm very curious about what you'd come up with.

[-] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 6 points 3 months ago

The last time I drew a horse, I drew it better than the person.

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