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Let me try to draw it.

I did it from a drawing.

An idea drawing is something that requires you to think.

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Yes. it's an old engraving.

Here's the companion picture.

See this Portrait of a sleeping face.

You're working on a painting now?

And that's a sketch that somebody described to be you.

'The Narmer Pallette' depicts the Egyptian pharaoh, 'Narmer'.

like that little girl's drawing that I showed you.

First of all, it's not a painting, it's a drawing.

It's just someone's imagination.

Do you know of any painting that didn t have a painter? Yes No.

In each instance, the narrative gets switched.

Do you know of any painting that didn't have a painter? Yes No.

It's modern you know, it's an action painting.

In each instance, our expectations are defied.

So, a napkin. Draw a little model galaxy in the middle.

That cloud looks so fluffy, kind of looks like a sheep.

It's a simple pen and ink drawing, right?

And if I could summarize that all up into one single sketch it would be this.

Pathos appears obviously as part of what you just saw in that little girl's drawing.

By a lucky chance I've got another on the very same thing.

Imagine, dude, you bring a primary school doodle to your mother, right?

This is the Etch A Sketch program the theme of EG 2008.

And I do a painting every 20 or 25 years. This is the last one.

It's an informal school, but it's really about holistic education.

And then I show you a little drawing you see, you remember that old thing I discarded?

So let's start, I have the star drawn again, and let's say we know the following angles.

Or the information's added on at the back, like that little girl's drawing that I showed you.

I want to do a fairly reasonable drawing so I'll spend a little time doing that.

Memories of some maddening woman who was the luck of their DNA draw.

He decides to paint her a picture explaining where he is going next, which is half way up the river, towards the setting sun.

Around the time Leonardo sketched the Vitruvian Man, however, a Neoplatonist named Pico Della Mirandola had a different idea.

Here is an actual cave painting from around 30,000 years ago found preserved deep inside Chauvet cave, in France.

When I see a painting like that, if you didn't tell me anything I would say this was done in the '50s or '60s. When was this done?

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And then you have to do the initial sketch of the character, which is like your structure of a piece, and then you add pen and pencil, and whatever details that you need that's polishing the drawing.