| Most children feel that they can draw
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| | nature consists of geometric forms and
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| wonderful pencil drawings and most adults
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| | lines, in infinite combinations and
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| think they don’t know how to draw
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| | formations. You were born with the
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| at all. Or an adult will say, “I
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| | ability to mimic these forms, so
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| used to draw great when I was a kid, but
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| | it’s just a matter of practice to
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| I couldn’t make good pencil
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| | be able to reproduce and control them.
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| drawings when I got older.”
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| | You are drawing for yourself alone.
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| We all used lead pencils, colored
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| | Drawing is an educational process, like
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| pencils, chalk, and crayon when we were
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| | reading, writing, or studying history.
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| small children, but somehow most of us
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| | It’s a tool of discovery that every
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| left them behind around the time we
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| | thinking person should strive for
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| received our first pen.
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| | competency in.
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| Did you ever consider that perhaps you
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| | You are ready to open your mind. See
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| think you can’t draw simply because
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| | things like a child sees them for the
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| you haven’t used a pencil in years
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| | first time. Admit to yourself that
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| and are out of practice? Or maybe
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| | you’ve forgotten how to look and
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| you’ve lost that child’s
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| | open your mind to seeing what’s
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| ability to draw what you actually see
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| | really there and not what your brain has
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| rather than what you expect to see?
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| | conditioned you to see.
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| It’s true that naturally
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| | You will suspend criticism and judgment
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| artistically talented individuals will
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| | of yourself. Be ready to loosen up, make
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| excel in pencil art as well as in
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| | messes, experiment with drawing materials
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| watercolor, pastels, acrylic, or oil, but
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| | and get your hands dirty. Forget the
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| it is also true that anyone can become
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| | terms “artistic”,
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| competent enough to produce an accurate
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| | “good”, “bad”,
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| pencil portrait.
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| | “talent”.
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| Most of us had some training as children
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| | You are ready to take instruction. The
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| in the art of drawing. Unless you showed
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| | art of drawing is ancient and there are
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| exceptional artistic talent as a child
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| | elementary techniques and principles
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| and pursued an education in art, your
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| | which are easy to learn. Be open to
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| instruction in drawing probably ended by
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| | training and be ready for lots of
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| secondary school. What if your
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| | practice. Learn from books, drawing
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| literature training had stopped at
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| | classes, or take private lessons.
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| children’s rhymes, history at the
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| | Mastering the skills to produce competent
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| Industrial Revolution, or geography
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| | pencil sketches and pencil portraits will
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| lessons were suspended just when the New
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| | give you a fresh appreciation of the
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| World was discovered?
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| | pencil art of the masters. Visit a
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| The good news is it’s never too
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| | museum or gallery, or study the pencil
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| late to restart your drawing education.
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| | drawings of famous artists in art books.
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| All it takes is five simple assumptions:
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| | Frame a few reproductions and surround
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| You can draw. You can make a dot, a
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| | yourself and your family with these
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| square, a circle, a triangle, a straight
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| | inspirations.
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| line, a curved line. Everything in
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