Art is about capturing the feeling of a thing, not recording and replaying the actual thing.
A good drawing discards almost all of the unnecessary information from the real scene. Then you exaggerate to bring out the essence - which lines get thicker, which shades get darker, which features are literally enlarged or shrunken.
That’s the labor of the artist, to decide what’s relevant and what’s not.
Sure, but that’s not the point of this post. It’s a reminder that draws (haha) attention to the fact that art isn’t necessarily a literal 1:1 copy of real life and that we shouldn’t compare ourselves or others to idealised or stylised artistic depictions, nor judge ourselves on them.
Art is about capturing the feeling of a thing, not recording and replaying the actual thing.
A good drawing discards almost all of the unnecessary information from the real scene. Then you exaggerate to bring out the essence - which lines get thicker, which shades get darker, which features are literally enlarged or shrunken.
That’s the labor of the artist, to decide what’s relevant and what’s not.
Sure, but that’s not the point of this post. It’s a reminder that draws (haha) attention to the fact that art isn’t necessarily a literal 1:1 copy of real life and that we shouldn’t compare ourselves or others to idealised or stylised artistic depictions, nor judge ourselves on them.