Elephants
We spent some time at work today drawing elephants on the whiteboard. I’m not quite sure what started this silly idea, but eventually almost everyone got involved and a wide array of creatures could be seen.
In my head, I think I know how to draw an elephant, I’m pretty sure what one looks like, but put a pen in my hand and tell me to draw one (or anything else for that matter) and it never quite comes out as I expect. The skill in drawing seems to be little to do with how you hold the pen or what technique you do to achieve a particular effect, and more about having the kind of brain that can remember enough detail about an image to convert each of it’s attributes into a set of recognisable lines and shapes. My brain is apparently not wired that way.
