{"id":396,"date":"2012-02-01T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-01T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/?p=396"},"modified":"2022-01-30T12:53:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T12:53:05","slug":"draw-what-you-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/2012\/02\/01\/draw-what-you-see\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Draw What You See<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"174\" height=\"373\" src=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/201202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/201202.jpg 174w, https:\/\/www.peterwoolley.co.uk\/artstuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/201202-140x300.jpg 140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The full saying is this: &#8216;Draw what you see, and not what you know is there&#8217;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And that&#8217;s the simple message I want to get out this month. I know, in particular, that many people struggle with linear perspective; it&#8217;s a problematic subject, fraught with frustration and despair. You know what you see, and you understand the concepts, but for some reason or other, something happens between looking at a subject and putting paint or pencil to paper. It&#8217;s frustrating because the concepts are mostly common sense, once you look at them in any great detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What you should know about is the &#8216;A Priori&#8217; Image. It&#8217;s the little man on your shoulder, the voice in your head that thinks it knows better than you&#8230;. If I say to you &#8216;Think of a banana&#8217;, then you can do that; you know what a banana looks like, so conjuring up an image in your mind&#8217;s eye is easy. If I say to you &#8216;Think of a cube&#8217;, you can do that to (unless you&#8217;ve never come across a cube before). This image we carry in our heads is what is known as an &#8216;A Priori&#8217; image. It is something we are able to conceive through experience of the real world. Unfortunately, it can also get in the way; when we look at a house, or any building for that matter, we are at the mercy of our A Priori image. The little voices in your head will have pre-constructed a mental image of how that building should look, based upon your experience of the world about you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are two solutions, to getting it right. Firstly; ignore the voices in your head. Secondly; focus very carefully on what is before you, and draw what you see and not what you know is there. No matter how complex a building might at first seem, it can be simplified into less complex, simple components. The trick is to reduce everything down to simplified, manageable forms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The full saying is this: &#8216;Draw what you see, and not what you know is there&#8217;. And that&#8217;s the simple message I want to get out this month. I know, in particular, that many people struggle with linear perspective; it&#8217;s a problematic subject, fraught with frustration and despair. 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