A drawing is not a copy of reality-it is a tangible, external product of your mind. This is not a clever metaphor-it is a direct analogy. Masterful line art proves that you can create the illusion of a three-dimensional reality without using anything that belongs to that reality. Why does this matter?īecause it demonstrates that 2d representational art is an abstraction. a rectangle) as a shape? What even is a shape? Shape is just a human concept. Why do we perceive a four sided figure (e.g. Yet that shape, lacking value (lightness/darkness) and color, is not real. It is the most basic way of making a shape. In art we have this amazing abstract thing: the line. If you are able to do that, then it seems to the viewer like you are depicting forms that really exist. The difference is significant: the form does not come from the 3d reality being depicted, it comes only from the drawing, obviously, right? Your subject out there may be three-dimensional, but your drawing is two-dimensional, and it is the only thing your viewers see.Ī drawing is not a copy or a rendition or a version of some other reality-it is its own reality, a direct line to the viewer’s brain, like you are drawing on the chalkboard of their mind. You might want to stand on your head for this…Īs representational artists, we don’t RENDER form, we CREATE the ILLUSION of form. If not… LESSON ONE: WELCOME TO THE UPSIDE-DOWN This is what is meant by “drawing” in the technical sense.Ĭan you make great, wonderful art without solid drawing? YES, of course! Of course you should do that if you want. If it has “drawing problems”, the illusion of form suffers. Whatever the medium, if your picture has solid form, it’s because of solid drawing. You can’t tell because you don’t know what drawing really is.ĭrawing, as I’m using the word here, refers the powerful tool we use to create the illusion of form and space in 2d art. It doesn’t work, so you try again and again.
You think drawing is if you get the shape of that nose exactly like how it looks out there, or employ subtle “shading”, you will have drawn a great-looking face. I don’t care how you think about me-I care how you think about drawing. But all these strong words are needed to dislodge you from your misconception about what drawing is. This is not about how I make art-it’s about how YOU SEE, how we all interpret a three-dimensional reality from two-dimensional imagery.
Maybe after a quarter century of pain, suffering and defeat you will figure it out for yourself. If you think this is stupid, you’re me 25 years ago, so you’ll ignore it and hope the questions its raised in your mind will just go away. Or you can go be entertained by some process video on YouTube, try to do it yourself, fail, then binge something on Hulu like you always do, and be stuck in a rut for the rest of your life because you still don’t understand what drawing is.
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