Drawing from memory help for beginner

I recently starting drawing using pencils. My best drawing to date is of my male cat that I drew from a photograph. A week later at work I tried to draw my cat from memory and it did not turn out too well. I think I missed a lot of the details that made the first drawing look so good.

My question is how can I improve drawing from memory? Besides practicing a lot are there any tricks that people use? Should I be able to 'see' the complete image in my head before I start drawing? I do not have a photographic memory so find this subject hard.

That's the only way you're going to be able to do it. Repitition rules.

The way to draw convincingly from your imagination and from memory is to draw a lot from life first.

Jane

Some artists use memory drawing exclusively. Their argument is that the mind eliminates unnecessary detail and gets to the spirit of the thing. Other artists stand before nature and transpose into their pictorial vocabulary. In both instances the elimination of detail is the objective. Unfortunately you seem to want detail at the expense of art.

People who don't like to look at detail are people who can't accept reality. Painters who purposely exclude detail from their works are visual liars.

NOTHING Dictates that the objective of drawing from memory is to LEAVE OUT information.

FORTUNATELY, We have an artist here who wants to tell the TRUTH in his ART.

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My experience is that it was good to learn to leave out detail. You have to start somewhere don't you? The longer I work they more I try to put in

I don't care anymore. We're all gonna die - Real soon.

People who pay attention to detail observe that items in the distance *lack* detail.

Now bow down and beg the Grey's for forgiveness. You have about 30 - 365 days.

Boogaroo managed to accomplish this feat quite nicely, as have many others.

Rubbish! Leave out some detail in a drawing is an invitation to the viewer to search their own imagination or memory and find their own TRUTH.