The power of sketching
The power of sketching continues to surprise me.
Always from reality, I draw what's in front of me—portraying three dimensions into two and paying attention to detail.
"You can compare sketching to taking an Instagram photo for [several] minutes."1 I said in a 2019 essay.
You capture people, places, and objects in ever-changing contexts.
The key difference between taking pictures and sketching is attention.
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By offloading the capture of reality to a camera, you don't think much about it. The machine does the job, translating light into millions of pixels.
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Using your sight and hands to capture reality requires not only skill but thinking, analysis, and abstraction.
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The camera takes it all—we select the aspects of reality that make it into our sheet.
We decide what we pay attention to.
Time, place, and people. July 9, 2019. The second essay of my Sketches & Stories series. ↩
