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Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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Using Stick Figures in a Graphic Novel?

I feel like anyone who does physics should have to take a class in perspective drawing just for the part on where you're drawing on the board. It's really helpful to be able to take a picture and just figure out like, where do these lines roughly go? I don't know if I have a satisfying answer to that. Um, I guess a lot of trial and error. But nevertheless, since you're not just using clip art,. you do whatever the labels are, whatever the legitimacy is, you need to make artistic decisions, right? Like using stick figures. So who cares about that? Exactly.

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