No, I'm not talking about the comic. I'm taking about drawing period. Why is it that when I draw from memory, I can capture the mass and feel of the picture, but when I try and copy one, it takes long to get that same feel? Sure I learn something new (and I really have by the way) but it takes long. I'm not complaining at the learning process because I know this takes patience, but if I can quickly sketch from memory without being accurate, leave it as it is, and it looks fine, but not be able to copy a picture without struggling to get the mass and feel of the picture when I'm starting to copy it something must be wrong. Shouldn't it be the other way around?

Like today I'm practicing drawing faces by using the teardrop method. On the computer, I copied a face today that took all day, but when I did a sketch of a cartoon human face from memory, it came out well! I'm not even really trying, I'm just going by feel. I don't know if I'm just over reacting here, but I feel like something's not right. Is it because I'm used to drawing this character?