copying is not art - by nancy - general zuo's chicken
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art breathes new ideas to life
when i first started drawing, i was intimidated by the pieces that copied real life as close as possible. those pieces where you weren't able to tell the picture from the drawing, where the artist went through the aggravating process of photo-realistically translating each shadow, light, and texture into pencil graphite. i thought i had to be able to do that to be a good artist, and the 'measure' of skill was in attention to detail. but not long into drawing, i realized how boring it was to copy something instead of making something of my own. growing up, rather than focusing on learning…
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