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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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