Hey there. First time on the forum, I hope I'm in the right place.
For the past while I have been studying anatomy, and I think it's going pretty well! Given a reference photo I can replicate it in a way that I find accurate and visually pleasing and I'm satisfied. However, when I sit down to draw something from imagination, suddenly all of my anatomy knowledge and experience drawing poses seems to evaporate and everything is stiff and the anatomy is nonexistent, never mind the perspective. I guess what I'm trying to say is I'm having trouble translating fundamentals to actual practice. For reference, I'm trying to draw comic art and concept art, so character design, posing characters interacting with each other, and stuff like that.
I know that the response to "I have trouble drawing from imagination" is simply "then draw from reference", but often the images that I need are too specific and I can't find a good reference for them, and/or are multi-person or have too weird of an angle or too different of a body type to be able to take a reference photo of myself.
Does anyone have any advice, stuff that worked for you? Thanks.
