Leonie Sargeant

I cannot draw from memory at all, but if I am looking at something right in front of me i can. I always used to get very frustrated before I knew I had aphantasia because I knew - in a narrative way - how I wanted my drawing to turn out but they never work. I tried it recently with a cartoon shark, and I could draw it (badly) whilst looking at it, but when I couldn't see it I had no idea how to. Conceptually I knew what the shark should look like, but without being able to 'see' it , I had no way to translate my narrative description into a drawing.

Funnily enough, I usually resort to reading fan works from tv shows or movies. it might be because I already know what the characters look like, and if I need to I can google. I guess it just takes off the pressure to try and visualise. Anyone else?