Point of Exquisite Suspension: Drawing Skill Taught by Example

A comic strip I created at age 11. The "big-head" style was inspired by the 'Peanuts' comic.

Fast forward two decades later and I began my Artie's Pad comic series.

As an Art Instructor, I seek ways to impart drawing skill to my students. The statement below is the beginning of a PDF document that explores the cultural influences on drawing proficiency, comparing the cognitive structures of drawing and language, and examining why children in Japan exhibit greater drawing skills than those in the United States and Europe.

Many people feel they “can’t draw”, which seems odd given assumptions about drawing as a direct pathway to visual concepts. We can all see, so why can’t we draw?
— Dr. Neil Cohn Associate Professor at the Department of Communication and Cognition at Tilburg University, in the Netherlands.