Learn to
Draw:
The rampant addiction of taking mobile and i-pad photos
currently sweeping the world calls into question, how much detail do people
notice in the world around them. All these photos destined for Facebook or
twitter have approached plague proportions, do people really have the time to
look, let alone examine them all.
What a great pity that the ancient skill of drawing seems to
have vanished. A skill that started on the walls of caves by our ancestors and has been with us
ever since. Practicing artists now also appear to rely on computer, digital, and
other technical means to record their statements about the world.
To understanding anything visually around us
we need to observe, and look for its detail, texture, tone, and patterns. It is
the combination of these inferences that create visual memory. It is the best
way to understand the world we observe daily. Yet we continual to i-pad the and hardly take time to look at our handy work.
John Ruskin claimed that the most important things in life are
thought, and sight, not speed. Our goal should be to try to understand the
wonderful world we live in by searching for the details. No postcard or momentary
image will replace the skill of drawing, its not that difficulty.
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