On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:32:19 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

>>>> Some artists struggle but persevere, others do have a natural
>>>> knack....And many have to be trained.
>>> Well, these guys do work for Valve Corporation, so...
>> 
>> So they may actually have spent years learning how to draw. ;-)
> 
> I spent a whole year "learning to draw". As far as I can tell, I learned
> absolutely nothing. (The book didn't really help either...)
> 
> Actually, no, that's not quite true. I learned why drawing is even hard
> in the first place: because humans see things as 3D objects, not 2D
> figures. And that means that when you try to copy something, you take
> the 2D image, mentally convert it to 3D, and then try to convert back to
> 2D by hand... which doesn't work at all. The solution is to directly
> draw what the eye sees, not what the mind interprets.
> 
> Of course, I still have *no frickin' clue* how to do that.

I've spent the occasional time trying to learn to draw as well.  There's 
a difference between taking one class and spending *years* honing a 
skill.  Itzhak Perlman, for example, is a world-class violinist.  You 
don't seriously think he doesn't spend several hours a day practicing, 
but just gets up on stage and performs without any preparation at all, 
even with his decades of experience, do you?

Jim

Jim

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