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This is plain wrong. Of course there are people who have a natural talent, but that’s a tiny minority and most people have to do with practice - it’s just the p
by misnome 9y ago
This is plain wrong. Of course there are people who have a natural talent, but that’s a tiny minority and most people have to do with practice - it’s just the people with many more years of practice that you end up comparing yourself to.
You wouldn’t expect to sit down at a piano for the first time and have the dexterity and coordination to play, without any kind of practice, would you?
Almost everyone draws as a child. Then, they stop, try as an adult and then give up when they end up making a picture that looks “like a child’s drawing” - of course it does - that’s the point at which you stopped learning to draw.
- wiz21c 9y agoI observed my kids and at age of 5 or 6, they drew super well (I mean, incredibly well for their age). Then they stopped practicing and the apparent talent faded away. Personally, I decided that I wanted to draw in my early twenties. I may have had some natural talent so I was able to draw complicated things. But even if I consider this natural talent I can assure you that 99% of drawing is practice (which I don't have time to, unfortunately). Just look at the classical masters (Caravage, Rubens, whatever). Drawing is first and foremost, observing, looking and watching. Watching with the eyes first, and the heart after. I can assure you than when I look at something to draw it, I "feel" that something inside of me. Drawing is an act of communion for me.