A short musing on Art

Drawing is akin to creative writing. There are several ways which one can go about crafting the image. One is to draw the whole image simple, so that the essential idea is crafted. Then the task is to fragment the image, so that the truly important details are highly focused, while the weight of the lines becomes loose where the importance of the detail lessens. And last is the control of the idea, the layout of composition, and the artist's skill in exploring different unified tastes, or themes. This last one is the ability of the artist to shrink or magnify any aspect of the world in art that they please—each and every point of the art bends towards one, singular and primary goal. ( Read more... )