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Why people believe they can’t draw – and how to prove they can [video]

2 pointsby chauhankiranover 5 years ago

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probably_wrongover 5 years ago
While I appreciate any efforts to make drawing more accessible, I think the guy (Graham Shaw) is setting people for disappointment by not pointing out what the way forward would look like.<p>First, knowing where to start is a skill by itself. Those in the audience can now reliably draw a face looking to the side, but ask them to draw a person from the front and they&#x27;ll be stumped again. They will then say &quot;Guess I can&#x27;t draw after all&quot; and quit forever.<p>Second, those &quot;simple lines&quot; are the result of a simplifying process with some clearly-defined rules. They didn&#x27;t come out of nowhere. If the audience wanted to draw a dog in this style, they&#x27;d have a hard time doing it without knowing what the rules are.<p>I agree with the message behind the video: that almost anyone can draw if they want to, and that they just need to start doing it. But I fear that he replaces one illusion (&quot;I can&#x27;t draw&quot;) with another one (&quot;I can learn how to draw anything in 15 minutes&quot;) that will still lead to disappointment down the line.