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should not try to know how every finished picture will look, stripped-down parts, drawing in pursuit of our own VISION
but it is important to be clear why we are making it. thoughts and understanding. My drawings of a house-
martin (opposite top) illustrate the importance of repeated
Decide before you start whether you are drawing to study. More was learned drawing the bird 18 times than
warm up, or to discover the best use of a new material, would have been understood drawing it only once or twice.
to express the beauty in a moment's play of light, conduct Each fresh image reflects growing confidence and the
an experiment, make a calculation, shout against a terrible experience of the preceding study. This also applies if
injustice, or illustrate a dream. Opposite, I drew to struggling at length with a larger picture; when it looks
understand the apparatus of flight, while below, Leonardo tired and still feels wrong, it may be best to start afresh.
drew to invent a machine. Our drawings are annotated Don't be disheartened; time spent is not lost. It will be
investigations into the mechanisms of nature and of an invested through your experience in the new drawing.
idea. We have both covered our paper with focused,
