I come from a family successful artists and designers. I was the black sheep being verbal and incapable of drawing. But art having been important in my home growing up I have also spent much time in art museums, both at home and when I travel. Here is what is curious. In my 60s my wife got me to sign up for a sculpture class at a prestigious art academy that happened to be close to where we were living at the time. I had never sculpted a human figure in my life, but my very first standing nude was remarkably good. Over the next few years until we moved I was a regular student in the sculpture class. The experience was always very visceral, the feel of the clay and the look of the arm or the leg or the back but never a scene of the figure as a whole nor and no understanding of where or why my sculpture as a whole did not reflect the model standing before me The last pieces that I did were not really improved over the first. And I still can't draw.

I'm also an artist and love what you said! Do you have any tips for drawing things without a reference?

I come from a family successful artists and designers. I was the black sheep being verbal and incapable of drawing. But art having been important in my home growing up I have also spent much time in art museums, both at home and when I travel. Here is what is curious. In my 60s my wife got me to sign up for a sculpture class at a prestigious art academy that happened to be close to where we were living at the time. I had never sculpted a human figure in my life, but my very first standing nude was remarkably good. Over the next few years until we moved I was a regular student in the sculpture class. The experience was always very visceral, the feel of the clay and the look of the arm or the leg or the back but never a scene of the figure as a whole nor and no understanding of where or why my sculpture as a whole did not reflect the model standing before me The last pieces that I did were not really improved over the first. And I still can't draw.

I'm also an artist and love what you said! Do you have any tips for drawing things without a reference?