Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/04/07
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But learning "the basic, technical skills" of drawing increases what you see in the world, and that's what's important in this context, not turning out fabulous drawings. A friend of mine qualified as a Royal Marine sniper (which is not easy), and aside from all the physical stuff involved they spend a lot of time being taught how to draw. Seriously - all these tough elite soldiers sat around every afternoon and drew trees and stuff. The objective was the same: they were being taught to look. I hasten to add that I don't mean that anyone who didn't learn to draw is no good as a photographer, that's clearly nonsense, but it's a good way in for anyone who wants to improve their photography. P. ******* Paul Hardy Carter www.paulhardycarter.com +44 (0)20 7871 7553 ******* On 7 Apr 2006, at 14:27, B. D. Colen wrote: > Saying "anyone can draw" is like saying "anyone can photograph," > "anyone > can write," "anyone can play viola." While it's true on a basic level, > it's > actually nonsense. Learning the basic, technical skills of an art does > not > give the vast majority of people the ability to produce anything beyond > mechanistic drech. (and btw, give most people all the drawing courses > yoy > want and what they draw will still look like the begining discards of a > begining art student.;-))