4 MODIFICATION SKILLS
When I was 11, my parents signed me up for a drawing class at a local visual arts center. I still have the sketchbook they bought me, which sits on a shelf in my studio next to sketchbooks from college and graduate school.
One of the first tasks was to draw two wooden blocks, one short and one tall, standing on their ends. My first attempt was sad. The lines of the sides of the blocks are curved and lean over instead of standing straight, and the perspective is wrong. They look like blocks made of Jell-O instead of wood. I can still remember the frustration that the drawing didn’t look the way I pictured it in my head.
The teacher told me that if I wanted to draw something from life, I needed to rely on what my eyes saw, ...
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