Picasso had incredible technical skills. He was 14 when he drew this. https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon.com/2012/01/01_Study_of_a_Tor

Picasso had incredible technical skills. He was 14 when he drew this. https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon.com/2012/01/01_Study_of_a_Torso_1895_MuseuPicasso_Barcelona_600.png https://mediaproxy.salon.com/width/1200/https://media.salon.... Even when older, he could still draw with rare economy. This is just a few extended strokes - pure controlled line. https://doitbeforeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/picasso-line-hand-drawing-e1572979110988.jpg https://doitbeforeme.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/picasso-... But he moved on, because there's only so much you can do with representational figurative drawing. He was more interested in psychological and perceptual abstraction. So his imagery is often grotesque, deliberately primitive, and visually distorted. But powerful psychologically, often in uncomfortable ways. And hard to do - never mind invent out of almost nothing.