Hey guys I wanted to introduce you to a new thing I'm working on, it's called
Cognitive Drawing. This is the way that I learned how to draw as a kid
Just so you know I grew up in the middle of nowhere in Idaho.
I didn't really feel like I had the art teachers that new the styles that I
Really wanted to emulate
So I'd get comics and look at newspaper funnies.
I wished that these guys could sit down and look over my shoulder and show me
What I'm doing wrong
So this technique kind of spawned out of that idea
It's something I've tried to explain to people how I do it, and they're just like well
yeah you're just practicing I'm like well no there's there's a method
to it that makes your practicing really really effective
I really believe there's a certain kind of way that you can practice that
will make you retain stuff at lightning speeds comparatively to just drawing
random stuff, and practicing or trace and do you trace
you know like you get anatomy book and it's like what do I do with that. do I
trace it
do I draw it do I just reference it like how do I use this and so I taught a
class the other month and I tried to develop this technique into a worksheet
that I could give to my students and I tried it with these students from ages 11
all the way up to 50
It was amazing how much of an improvement these people had. So it got
me really excited. And I realized you know what, maybe there's something here
and I just need to develop this into a book while I'm excited about it and just
put it out there and see if other people can get something out of it now I know
it's not for everyone but if you're like me then
this is perfect for you again, this is how I taught myself how to draw
I believe you can apply this to anything from different styles, to you know
cartoon figures, to anatomy and so what I'm doing is developing this first book and
it's on anatomy and I really believe that if you sit down and actually do the book
you will be way better at
anatomy. And you'll have memorized the anatomy of the body and that way when
you get a job for the first time in art, you you're not struggling trying to find
the reference material you can just, you know, whip these things out from memory
I need some people to to test it on because I've tested in a small group of
people and it's worked.
But in order to really refine this book I want some people who can devote maybe
a month working on this for about half an hour a day for about a month, to
learn the anatomy of the upper body or maybe even the full body from the front,
give me feedback, and allow me to have access to your drawings once you're done.
and maybe even be able to interview you to figure out what works and what
doesn't work because I would love to be able to do this as a Kickstarter
eventually but I need some testers I need some guinea pigs.
I need some people who really want to learn anatomy to try this out, and like I
say I am completely confident that this works
It's just a matter of if you can put in the time to do it so I have a sign up
for a mailing list for Cognitive Drawing and you can find it at coffeetable--
comics.com/cognitivedrawing
I'll have the link in the show notes, and I'll put it right here
Go sign up there, within the next week I'll send you guys an email inviting you
to see how the system works, the way it works, and give you the option to become
one of the testers
If this is up your alley, please sign up. If you know someone who you think would
benefit from this, and would want to do this please let them know about it. I
need people who are committed for like a month to try it out, and just give me
feedback and allow me access to what they did
so I'm really excited about it and I'm trying to launch a Kickstarter before
the end of the year on this if you really want to crash course in the way
that I learned how to draw this is how I got good really fast now at the age of
20,
I moved to LA start doing storyboards I completely attribute me being able to do
that because of this technique, like really just spending months doing this
I know it works because it worked for me again please go to the link below,
sign up for the mailing list I'll send you a video explaining how to do the
worksheets, and I'll send you a PDF sampler that you can try it has like,
probably, 40 pages each page takes about half an hour to do I need some testers
so thanks guys, I will see you soon bye.
This drawing is the first one from memory, second one from memory,
third one from memory why do you think it works I can tell you after doing
these drawings my brain is tired
Yeah that tells me that I was really focused and really trying to think about
what I was doing I'm amazed at the difference from the first drawing to the last one
This is a bear, we're trying to draw from memory this is the first time, second
time, third time from memory,
compared to the first time. This is the artist how old are you 11 years old
So this is a picture of Naruto the first one from memory,
second one, third one. That face from memory after never drawing manga before
And this is our reference here this muscle man armed first one from memory,
second one, third one. Which is a big improvement over that. This is the first
one from memory,
second one from memory, and third one from memory. It's a big improvement.
do you feel like you've improved a lot in that?
Yeah are you going to try to use this technique to memorize things and to
draw more stuff
Good how old are you
Eleven years old, and you're able to improve that quickly. That to that. And how long
did it take you to do that
ok would you continue to use this technique in the future for drawing--
learning to draw
yeah and do you think it's a you think it's a quick quick way of improving or
do you think it is actually very quick
yes you know what to do and so you were saying you know this show like the
back of your hands.
somewhat I know the style and I can recognize it easily and so even though
you knew the style when you try to do for the first time from memory
it was hard yeah but then doing this technique you are able to actually nail
it
yeah well thank you how old are you 13 13 about 14
so this is what we're trying to draw and this is the first one from memory
second one from memory third one from memory
I think that's a big improvement do you think that's a big improvement
yeah I think it was a pretty good improvement yeah it's been a while since I've drawn
how long has it been since you've drawn probably 20 some odd years
have you ever done this technique before
I've never done anything like this before