Every year I have Intro Drawing students use a viewfinder to draw the negative space around a chair. This year Dustin suggested that it would be easier for him to do it in photo-negative instead of just with pencil. I thought that was a great idea, so I broke out the scratch-board and let them have at it. Man, I'm glad I did. The paradox of drawing is that if you don't try to draw the chair, but concentrate on preceving the negative space around it instead, your viewers will see a more realistic chair than if you'd tried to draw it in the first place.
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