An Essay on Basic Principles for Looking at and Creating Art

Also when we drew the peculiarly placed chairs many of us had the tendency to draw what we knew instead of what we saw.
2.<Tab/>When you look at a drawing you look at the whole and bits and pieces at the same time. Like you look at this bit of the drawing compared to the whole drawing. How does this line, compare to this line. Also you can't look at the picture as part of the picture, like this is the hand, this is the ear.... You have to look at the lines not the pieces. That is not a finger it is a curved line, which is not the side of the desk it is a straight line. Also when you draw you want to fill up a whole area to make that drawing more interesting, busier. You don't want empty space floating around. …