>Now it is a truism that when you draw something you really look at it with an intensity that cannot be matched by any other activity.<
You don't just look at it, often to define it you need to look at the space it makes between itself and other objects.
I'm rubbish at figure drawing and one day was having terrible trouble trying to approximate the position of an arm with hand resting on the hip. Until a friend suggested I try not looking at the arm and attempt to depict its many angles, but try looking at the shape of the space between the body and the arm.
That's a lesson worth learning.
Rune
