My experience with visualizing images is pretty similar to yours. It appears very clearly in my mind until the moment I try to put it on paper, then it completely disappears. I doubt it's related to the star thing, though.
I can definitely relate to this. I can always visualise the sketch/painting/whatever I want to create in perfect detail, but very rarely can I accurately translate that image onto paper. The mental image just seems to blur as soon as I try. I've been told that I'm a pretty decent artist (I'd call myself "average", with ample room for improvement), but even the pictures I'm most proud of can never compare with the images I had in my head in the first place
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I'm the same. I have a fair bit of artistic talent, but I haven't used it much in the last few years.
My best attempts mean focusing on the image in my mind before starting to work, making mental notes of subtle things that I will probably forget once it fades. Even then, I have to accept that I'm going to lose the image and whatever I create it going to take on it's own life - and won't ever be like the one in my mind.
I wonder if anyone has trained themself to hold them image through drawing/painting?
You should be able to join yourself by clicking on the little head right here: phil_of_mind. Then click on the little head with a plus by it and that should give you an option to join (I think).
Ignore that last message. It's been a while since I played with this site. Click on the orange thing in my previous comment, and then above the little head-plus there should be a link to join.
I think the key to it is that a mental representation of a good image doesn't have to itself to be a good image. Our mental representations of lions could be 'childish' and 'simplistic' without us knowing it.
Here's an analogy: Now I'm probably about the least humorous person in the entire world, but sometimes I've had dreams incorporating people who make me laugh, and they've said things in the dream that have struck me as hilariously funny. Of course, they weren't really funny - if I am able to remember, on waking, precisely what they said, then I'll realize it was just more of the boring shit I come up with - but in the dream, it's as if I just arbitrarily tag their quips with the label 'hilarious' regardless of the content.
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My experience with visualizing images is pretty similar to yours. It appears very clearly in my mind until the moment I try to put it on paper, then it completely disappears. I doubt it's related to the star thing, though.
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My best attempts mean focusing on the image in my mind before starting to work, making mental notes of subtle things that I will probably forget once it fades. Even then, I have to accept that I'm going to lose the image and whatever I create it going to take on it's own life - and won't ever be like the one in my mind.
I wonder if anyone has trained themself to hold them image through drawing/painting?
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Here's an analogy: Now I'm probably about the least humorous person in the entire world, but sometimes I've had dreams incorporating people who make me laugh, and they've said things in the dream that have struck me as hilariously funny. Of course, they weren't really funny - if I am able to remember, on waking, precisely what they said, then I'll realize it was just more of the boring shit I come up with - but in the dream, it's as if I just arbitrarily tag their quips with the label 'hilarious' regardless of the content.
(Me = bvihvhkjbkfdmek, by the way)
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