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Another appointment with the bottom surgery people this tuesday

if the therapist greenlights me I might be given a surgery date this week

but then again, I said that exact same sentence this time last year, sooo... who knows

stop gatekeeping me challenge 2023

This was going to be a comment but I'm getting all rambly so it's a post now. The picture is from a wire art tutorial I bought that wound up being a good summary of existence.

I think one of the biggest problems people have with drawing is the human brain's tendency to go "blah blah blah whatever here's some generic mental images" instead of really looking at things when confronted with visual information it considers unimportant. This is terrible if you're trying to draw what something actually looks like because it means the first step isn't drawing what you see, the first step is actually seeing whatever you're drawing and not whatever generic filler art your brain dumped in. You have to practice seeing what things actually look like.

My big basket of laundry I need to put away can either be just a big heap of clothes to be dealt with, or if I decide to really look at it, a variety of examples of how different materials fold and drape when not being worn. The second option is more mental processing but also more useful in the future even if I'm not drawing anything right at the moment.

Marc Brunet YouTube describes it as a mental library which is a great description. And a lot of this post is inspired by the book Blindsight by Peter Watts which is in large part about how falliable the human mind is, and Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards which might date me a little but it was my first introduction to the idea that observation is a learned skill.