[vidarh]

There's little to indicate ability to visualize correlates all that strongly to art skills. E.g. Ed Catmull of Pixar fame has aphantasia, and on learning about it surveyed Pixar's artists and whole I think he found some correlation, some of their most talented artists also had aphantasia.

I have it, but could draw pretty well when younger (not practiced in decades). What I found, though, was that my style was very different depending on if I drew from a model or from memory.

[kolinko]

There was research into this and you’re right that it doesn’t correlate necessarily.

People with aphantasia are absolutely crap though with drawing anything from memory, but they can draw if something is in front of them.

[vidarh]

As I pointed out, I could draw just fine from memory, despite aphantasia. So could many of Pixars animators.