Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · Mar 25 One might think that an artist draws a picture by looking at the world, forming a mental picture of it, and then drawing from that picture. Drawing errors are perceptual or motor errors. But no one draws this way, because no one actually keeps a complete picture of what they see in their head. 3/
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Here's Henri Matisse drawing a portrait of his son. Watch his head and eyes, and how often they look back and forth between his drawing and his son. Why does he look back and forth so frequently—why can't he just draw his son from memory? And where exactly is he looking? 4/