Ways of Seeing

By Mark Kaufman
Here is a fine example of not only seeing things differently, but rendering them in vastly different styles. Much like the Famous Artists School ads which ask you to draw the clown or the pirate, every artist should have a different vision of how to draw something. On the left is my interpretation of musician, designer and artist Aaron Edge. On the right is a his self portrait. Same subject, two totally different drawings. While I am certainly proud of mine, I love Mr. Edge’s. Simple, spare, yet a great deal of impact. Which brings to mind the follwing quote by the late, great Chuck Jones: “The whole essence of good drawing – and of good thinking, perhaps – is to work a subject down to the simplest form possible and still have it believable for what it is meant to be.”