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    Drawing is the best way to learn, even if you’re no Leonardo da Vinci

    “I just can’t draw.” It’s a refrain most adults say when confronted with a blank piece of paper. Something happens in our teenage years that makes most of us shy away from drawing, fretting that our draftsmanship skills aren’t up to par, and leaving it to the “artists” among us. By Anne QuitoSeptember 15, 2018 Link to original article But we’ve been thinking about drawing all wrong, says the design historian D.B. Dowd. In his illuminating new book, titled Stick Figures: Drawing as a Human Practice, Dowd argues that putting a pencil to paper shouldn’t be about making art at all.  “We have misfiled the significance of drawing because we see it as…

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