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To: Slings and Arrows
Very nice. I took a drawing class a few years ago, and there was a guy in it who could produce work similar to this, where a drawing looked like a photograph, within an hour or less. The first comment the teacher made when he saw his work was "I don't think I have anything to teach you."

However, as the class went on, I noticed that while he could always produce a near photographic reproduction, that was all he could do. He could not do any sort of artistic reinterpretation of anything. It wasn't even halfway through the course when I lost interest in seeing his work. After all, if I wanted something like he produced, I could just take out a camera and take a picture. I was a lot more exited by seeing other people's work, especially ones who constantly improved.

11 posted on 02/02/2013 11:58:46 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Vince Ferrer
Did the guy in your drawing class produce the photo-like drawings in class or did he bring them in finished?
45 posted on 02/03/2013 8:38:40 AM PST by Ditter
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