What happens when you ask people to draw a bike (2016)
Drawing and painting is almost entirely a visual skill. The mechanical skills of wielding a pencil or mixing paint are almost trivial; the hard part is being able to <i>see</i> what's actually there.<p>A bicycle is an incredibly simple visual form. You can doodle one in about five seconds. They're not rare or unusual objects and they're relatively homogenous. Nonetheless, most people have never actually <i>seen</i> a bicycle. They've looked, but they haven't understood its form, they haven't decomposed it into lines and shapes. They know that it has two wheels, a chain, a saddle and some handlebars, but they've never actually noticed the shapes that join them together.<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/dp/1585429201/" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Right-Side-Brain-Definitive/d...</a>