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Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I had this conversation with my son-in-law. It came up in the Beautiful women thread and I think a discussion would be informative.

Crowbob said: "My problem with drawing is that I can’t seem to break away from what my eyes see and put down what my mind sees."

I have the same problem. I replied: "For me that is the hardest part of trying to create visual art. I see a house. I know it has 90 angles at every corner, but of course because of perspective I don’t SEE 90 degree angles. It’s very hard to shift my experience of the house away from what know to what is actually see."


Javadog doesn't have any problem with it:


I'd like to know the secret. When I see an object, like a ball, I know it is round. If I try to draw it in 2D I draw a circle, which doesn't look anything like a ball. I really have to work at figuring out what I actually see that makes it look round in 3D.
Everything I try to create in visual arts comes out looking like stick figures.

Another thing about creating art is knowing when you captured the image you want to convey. I never know when to quit. I know it is because my history is steeped in technical work, where if you haven't torqued that bold to exactly 84 lbft your engine may self-destruct, but an artist can get away with sketching a few lines and the viewer's mind sees it as a face. If I'm trying to draw something I never know when I've put down enough information to convey the experience of the image and when I'm wasting time adding line that just muddy it up.
When I'm trying to create art I'm a guy from a thoroughly objective world trying to break out into the world of subjectivity, and I'm not good at it.

This is why I'm better at creating sound than pictures. Although sometimes those sounds aren't easily recognizable as music.