Secrets of Drawing

One Hundred Seventy Third Post: Secrets of Drawing

There is a secret to drawing. One that has to be discovered oneself. The instructors show you technique, explain the theory, and even show you how they draw. Until the student draws he will never put together the pieces learned.

For example take a technical drawing of a machine. It can have gears and all the pieces that need to be assembled, but the actual figuring of the problem is done by the imagination. This leads to the question: How does one explain how a drawing solves a problem without showing the steps to the drawing? However in those steps the thought behind the steps is lost. The student must work through and develop their own interpretation of the drawing.

This answers the question: Can a computer be programmed to think? I believe the question should be: Can a computer draw? This is not a question of rather the computer can draw from programmed instructions, but rather can it draw an original work from those instructions. (Similar to what Data on STNG could.) A person can’t explain the exact thoughts they had while they were drawing. If they new that they would know the secrets of the mind, or rather the secrets of drawing.