A peculiar thing about drawing is that no matter how lifelike the result, the drawing is only a representation of reality. The marks we make are not meant to be literal replications of what we are drawing—they are suggestions, sometimes even symbols of the subject.
For example, fur and hair. Even in photo-realistic artworks, the artist does not carefully…
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