The truth is, that’s how most skilled artists learned to draw. In the past, there was a more formalized teaching role, often starting at age eight, and you can go through school and even get through art school having been given so little knowledge, that if you know how to draw a human from imagination, you can confidently say you are an autodidact.
It’s not because art, (particularly representational figure drawing, from imagination or not) is inherently unteachable, but a lot of people tend to think so.
This is not the only skill like this, although I think it’s one that’s perhaps the least understood and where misinformation is the most tolerated.
The truth is, that’s how most skilled artists learned to draw. In the past, there was a more formalized teaching role, often starting at age eight, and you can go through school and even get through art school having been given so little knowledge, that if you know how to draw a human from imagination, you can confidently say you are an autodidact.
It’s not because art, (particularly representational figure drawing, from imagination or not) is inherently unteachable, but a lot of people tend to think so.
This is not the only skill like this, although I think it’s one that’s perhaps the least understood and where misinformation is the most tolerated.