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110. Drawing from Life (and Death)

People I (Mostly) Admire

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The Importance of Drawing

I'm physically incapable of drawing. I remember the moment at which that became clear to me and it would have been in either fifth or sixth grade. It's interesting because I talk a lot about math and how people declare themselves they're not a math person but I'm really not a drawing person. When I'm drawing somebody I'm holding my sketch pad at waist high so there's an open channel between me and the person I'm drawing, then there's a physical document of that looking experience. To me it's kind of magic it holds the energy of that time and of that exchange. Do you tend to talk to people while you draw them or is there sense? I tend to use

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