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alpha0  ·  4876 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why humans can't draw
Last year I lived with a bunch of Brazilians. Good times :) One of my friends was an aspiring tattoo artist, covered literally from top of his head to bottom of his feet with amazing works of art. (Rich kid -- tattoos are apparently very expensive.) He has a beautiful Ganesh on his back.

So my friend wants to be a tattoo artist. That means drawing with an electric gun on someones sweaty skin. There is no room for error.

Fernando practiced drawing every day from anatomy books, botany books, whatever. He would literally draw the same thing over and over and over and over again until his hand learned the form.