Tracing imposed images as an easy cheat in art school.

[Heaventhief]

Seems like a real possibility. I do not even think it would be "cheating" because you still put time in effort into and/or made it from scratch in your mind.

[mouse]

Things I've noticed so far: I'm finding it much more difficult to create a visualisation out of an image than out of scratch.

 

Asside from the obvious perception of a visualisation, when repeating drawing an image if one is drawing from a visualisation the small details like number of repetitions should remain consistant, whereas from a memorisation they should only remain consistant if you conciously memorised that detail, like the number of tiles in the roof or the location a line makes a sudden turn, and the other details would be a kind of grey spot on the page. I think visualising is a bit like dreaming, where if you don't constantly maintain some detail or aren't awarely focusing on it then when you aren't percieving it directly then it changes or fills in details on the fly when you zoom in on it. Creating a visualisation (asside from imposing it on the senses in the first place) involves training your mind to be so familiar with it that it already has thedetails to draw from.

 

I'm finding that I'm having to memorise all the details and then create the visualisation out of the memorisation. I don't know if this would be nessesary with a much simpler image, like one of the individual people in that image or something. I've always created visualisations from scratch before.

 

Also, perhaps a better expirement than whether something is drawn using a visualisation or a memorisation is whether it can be manipulated and redrawn. I can take a visualisation and draw it tilted (either side to side like a rhombus or front and back like a trapazoid) or stretched in a dimension or with elements added or removed with very little thought put in to it. I suspect that it would be more difficult to do this from just the memory of an image. I'm going to have to test this at some point.

 

I'm not ready to draw that picture yet, give me a few more days.

[Wrath]

Alright, good luck. If you want just draw something (your tulpa for example) from scratch too, try this:

Visualize something in rough detail, your tupper or one of those wooden figures they use in artschool, use this to quickly draw a rough skellington in order to stabilize your Imposed image, so you know where the limbs will be, and that they're in the correct proportions, next sketch an outline then add the rest of the detail. try zooming in on individual parts of the body, the leg for example. Zoom in using your image editing program then do the same in your mind, add the details in your head then trace them onto the page.

See if that works better:

 

Also I believe there is an online app that lets you draw something, but it records every step you take. I know I've seen it around this forum before, I'd be grateful if you could use this and show us the process.

 

Edit:found the tool:

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We could use this as an imposition test:

[Lacquer]

I remember Irish said at one point that if he took a picture of his tulpa, he could see it when he looked at the photograph later. Could this be used similarly? As in take picture => put in photoshop => blank layer => trace?

[Splooshie123]

It isn't really cheating because that's what artists do: copy the picture they have in their head onto paper.

[Wrath]

It isn't really cheating because that's what artists do: copy the picture they have in their head onto paper.

 

Let's say it's a figure of speech.