Hey!

Have you got some exercises for sharpening visual memory?

I'm currently learn how to draw, it's good but when it comes to draw from imagination I have problems.

I read some tutorials but nothing except method to sketch from life moving forms like people.

Are there any exercise that can train visual memory?

I can imagine something but I can't see details of image in my mind. And sometimes when I'm trying to imagine that I'm drawing something in my mind I'm making mistakes in imaginations. That's not good.

That's really makes me demotivated as I can redraw something from life in a good way, keep proportions etc but when it comes to draw from mind - no way.

Will it be a good practice to take a look at something for one minute and then redraw it?

One of my favorite hobbies is drawing human forms, when a long time ago I didn't think I could draw at all. I slowly pieced together techniques, and slowly started gaining a sense of anatomy and physiology just by screwing around. Now I'm definitely skilled, but not without lots of practice and over a decade of merely dabbling in it. The biggest key is knowing what something is like, with awareness and understanding of it, and being able to articulate that.

It's like learning to play an instrument, there are no shortcuts, you must learn to 'speak' with the medium.