And a tree. Don’t forget the tree.
Wait. You Forgot The Birds.
YOU FORGOT THE HOLE IN THE TREE.
AND THAT TOTALLY RANDOM FLOWER.
You forgot the mixture of spiky and wavy grass.
Beautiful
Yes
What’s this “used to” crap? I STILL draw my suns that way.
I love this post.
Because I remember the moment in primary school when I realized that the sun indeed doesn’t look like I draw it, and thus that I’m not drawing it from how I see it in front of me but from how I learned to draw a sun, but without realizing, so I THOUGHT I draw it as it is, but it isn’t. And this was really the earliest moment I remember when I thought about how your environment influences you to see and reproduce things that aren’t necessarily “true”, and you do, without noticing, and you have to take a step back because you might have stopped seeing the reality. I was very excited and tried to talk with my parents about it (assuming that this would be very much their line of thought, all revolutionary and stuff), but they didn’t get it and only tried to calm me down and explain me stuff about drawing :/
“I’m not drawing it from how I see it in front of me but from how I learned to draw a sun”—Postmodernism starts in the cradle!
That’s not postmodernism, Prof, that’s How To Draw 101. 🙂
Though you know, interestingly enough sometimes what I need is to see how other people draw the thing that’s in front of me. Sometimes, despite having it right in front of me, I can’t actually get the lines to go together till I’ve had a chance to see how other people make the lines go together. Art is an interesting thing…
(Also you guys forgot the house.)