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With Sarah, Phil, Ellen, Rose the dentist, and the granddaughter whose name I forget.

Robert Jones, Napa

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Posted 9 Years Ago

Wouldn't we all love to achieve perfection? Or would we get bored with it ..... well, as I never will, I'll never know. I think anyone can draw who has a lightness of touch or is prepared to learn how to acquire it, and REALLY wants to learn how to draw. I also think that you really need to know if your drawing is poor - we've had one or two here, and there are far more on Facebook, who just don't ... it's almost as if they had a physical defect that prevented them from translating an object in front of them to a drawing on the page. So - maybe, if someone really can't draw, it would help if we had the courage to tell them. But this does get very difficult of course. I think, if I may be forgiven for saying so, of Paulette Farrell here: when she began, and started showing her work on POL, her drawing was off-beam in so many ways - I took a risk, and told her so, and gave her a few suggestions, which she took very well - and her figure drawing is now much better than mine! Which I hadn't intended at all..... But she is a good lesson; learn, take advice, work hard, practise and keep practising, and yes, you'll draw; and with any luck, like Paulette, you'll draw very well. But don't think it'll just fall into your lap without work: when I began this thread, this is what I meant - perhaps anyone CAN draw: but you've got to give natural ability, if you have it, a helping hand.

Ant Holder

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Posted 9 Years Ago

Anyone can draw.... but at different levels. Practice practice practice I say. Work at it and it will develop, even if you have a natural ability.

Alan Owen

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Posted 9 Years Ago

I am never sure about this ,there is beauty in the primitive art and child like drawing ,, leaving out uneccessary detail and being simple looks ok . I think it is all about good observation and memory ,I could never remember every muscle in the body , like some , I am not a good drawer or technical perfectionist, but I could draw the SCREAM ,.

Phil Kendall

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Posted 9 Years Ago

For me a drawing is simply a line that is the border between the known [subject] and the unknown [the background]. After 25 years of making drawings of complex biological tissues and organs as illustrations on a blackboard with chalk i simply cannot draw in the arty style. Then add in my years of pure technical illustrations...