From the course: Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals
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Introduction to the theory of drawing
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Fundamentals
Introduction to the theory of drawing
Most people draw when they're kids. You know, kids are really creatively fearless, they'll just draw anything. Unless you go into a classroom of eight or nine year old and ask is anyone good at drawing. You're going to get like 100% arm success rate. Everyone thinks their good at drawing and they just do it naturally. But only when you get to about 10 or 12 what happens is there's a real splitting in the art room where a real obsession starts to come in with drawing realistic objects. Where some students pick up drawing quicker than others carry on drawing and progress really quickly and other students get very frustrated with it and then stop the drawing process. So, if you were in one of the camps that stopped the drawing process and you want to know, is there any chance that I'll still be able to learn to draw, then this is the course, and we're just going to go through and break down some of the barriers that can stop you learn to draw. One theory of how drawing works is that the…
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