Portrait Drawing Tip 94
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Why drawing what you know helps to avoid mistakes in portraits
"Drawing what you know" means using various drawing rules, proportions, perspective, foreshortening, contours and other constructive drawing principles as opposed to "drawing what you see", which is copying from life. Copying without knowledge results in mistakes because an artist doesn't see what one doesn't know. For example, when drawing a face, many beginner artists misjudge proportions and alignments; they place eyes too high, the mouth too low, break symmetry, misalign facial features and so on because they do not know the rules and proportions they need to check from life. This is especially apparent when amateur artists draw portraits from memory and imagination.
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