55 Short Book on Drawing
INTRODUCTION: ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS
To encourage my students to inject as much “story telling” into their drawings as possible, I have used a version of a Chinese saying that goes, “One picture is worth a thousand words.” When you think of some of the brilliant authors whose writings we so admire, it is hard to believe one drawing could equal even a dozen or so of their words. Read these lines (with less than a dozen words) for instance:
His wry smile was hidden under an umbrella of a moustache.
A pair of icy blue eyes radiated hatred and torment.
I couldn’t get over the obsessive sense of everything going wrong.
Those are difficult things to portray in a drawing, are they not? Even descriptive things ...
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