As I See it

If we are talking about the process of being able to draw what you see accurately, nothing slows the process down more than not being able to “see” and analyze what you see accurately.  Any rapid progress you might wish to make will be severely hampered if you try to avoid or leapfrog this essential step.  Learn how to see at the outset, or if more advanced, retrofit this skill into your knowledge base as soon as possible. This process is not stressed enough and is critical to rapid advancement in drawing skill.  Seeing accurately is a key part of the process. 

Artistic Seeing, as I define it, is made up of two main components.  First, the ability (easily learned) to look at a 3D scene or subject without focusing; almost as if you used your peripheral vision only, enabling you to establish the distance, size and shape relationships among the components of the scene.  And, second, the ability to control the influence your left-brain memories have on your interpretation (drawing) of what you are looking at.

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