Drawing isn't real
It's all a trick
A drawing is not a perfect record of reality, and it doesn’t have to be. Drawing is imprecise. And changing the truth a little can make better pictures.
Drawing isn’t real—it’s all a trick. You are trying to represent a four-dimensional world (three spatial dimensions plus time) on two-dimensional paper. Remaining perfectly faithful to reality is physica…
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