This is so interesting! Thanks for mapping it out. I don’t have cool associations like that but recently I learned that there are some people who can’t visualize anything in their head at all and, of course, it made me wonder if that’s me. After thinking about it way too much, I came to the conclusion that I visualize things in words fir…
This is so interesting! Thanks for mapping it out. I don’t have cool associations like that but recently I learned that there are some people who can’t visualize anything in their head at all and, of course, it made me wonder if that’s me. After thinking about it way too much, I came to the conclusion that I visualize things in words first rather than images. And fuzzy images second. Which maybe is weird because I’m an illustrator. But I guess that’s why I have to figure everything out on the page using shapes first. I’ve wondered if illustrators who are more drawn to shape usually figure it out on the page like that versus illustrators who are more drawn to line maybe have images in their head. No way for me to test this but my rambly point is…it is so fascinating how different all of our brains are!
I'm floored to hear an illustrator say this. Just shows me that I probably don't really know what's going on in my OWN process. But to be clear, while I do think in images, those images are terrible. Blurry and incomplete. I can draw a picture of a person if I have a photo of them, but I can't draw a really good one from memory. Not even my wife's face.
Oh interesting! I'm 100% the same way. Glad I'm not the only one. It definitely makes pictionary stressful haha ("You'll beat us all at this game cuz you're an illustrator. Wait...that's supposed to be a dog?") And about the process thing, I relate; so much of it feels like a mystery because it is so hard to think about how I am thinking and then articulate it. That's why your post is so cool!
This is so interesting! Thanks for mapping it out. I don’t have cool associations like that but recently I learned that there are some people who can’t visualize anything in their head at all and, of course, it made me wonder if that’s me. After thinking about it way too much, I came to the conclusion that I visualize things in words first rather than images. And fuzzy images second. Which maybe is weird because I’m an illustrator. But I guess that’s why I have to figure everything out on the page using shapes first. I’ve wondered if illustrators who are more drawn to shape usually figure it out on the page like that versus illustrators who are more drawn to line maybe have images in their head. No way for me to test this but my rambly point is…it is so fascinating how different all of our brains are!
I'm floored to hear an illustrator say this. Just shows me that I probably don't really know what's going on in my OWN process. But to be clear, while I do think in images, those images are terrible. Blurry and incomplete. I can draw a picture of a person if I have a photo of them, but I can't draw a really good one from memory. Not even my wife's face.
Oh interesting! I'm 100% the same way. Glad I'm not the only one. It definitely makes pictionary stressful haha ("You'll beat us all at this game cuz you're an illustrator. Wait...that's supposed to be a dog?") And about the process thing, I relate; so much of it feels like a mystery because it is so hard to think about how I am thinking and then articulate it. That's why your post is so cool!