"Other ways of knowing," aka Different Cognitive Styles

[okasha]

107. You're arguing with a number of things that neither Curtis nor I said.

Of course drawing is a skill. Just personally, I find people who tell me I have "talent" irritating, especially when they're "just looking" and not buying. (People who actually write checks can say anything they want to.)

Of course you learn drawing in your brain. Who said you learn it in your elbow or your pancreas?

The rules of linear perspective are essentially mathematical. Try to draw a rounded subject with 1- or 2-point perspective, though, and you'll find yourself in trouble rather rapidly.

Not everything that goes on in your brain is "rational" in the sense you're using the word. Have you ever used a grid in your drawing? On its face, this seems a "rational" technique since it involves measurement and drawing rectangles or triangles. But since it actually reduces the subject to separate, abstract parts which ignore the division of subject and background, or background and foreground, or anything at all besides contrast, you're forced to put aside the idea of "object" and rely on parts of your brain that do not depend on such "rational" divisions.