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[–] 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 child)

Art is about capturing the feeling of a thing, not recording and replaying the actual thing.

A good drawing discards almost all of the unnecessary information from the real scene. Then you exaggerate to bring out the essence - which lines get thicker, which shades get darker, which features are literally enlarged or shrunken.

That's the labor of the artist, to decide what's relevant and what's not.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 weeks ago

    Sure, but that's not the point of this post. It's a reminder that draws (haha) attention to the fact that art isn't necessarily a literal 1:1 copy of real life and that we shouldn't compare ourselves or others to idealised or stylised artistic depictions, nor judge ourselves on them.

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