Tonight’s goodnight #photo
This is the kind of thing I’d come home to when I was in high school. Better than the time there was a pig skull on the steps though.
Somewhere there’s a second photo after my mother put a leopard skin bikini on it.
@nazgul Very cool, I'm so envious of people with this talent. My wife had it. Sadly, I do not. She tried to teach me but it's not teachable if you don't have the innate talent. Sigh.
@shuttersparks It skipped a generation. My mother has it, my kids have it, but I don’t!
@nazgul The only one I know of in my bloodline who had it was my great uncle on my mother's side. He tried to teach me when I was little but I just don't have the ability to translate what I see to a 2-dimensional piece of paper.
I'm a very good photographer with a good eye and have been since I was 12. But that's obviously unrelated to drawing or sculpting.
I had plenty of time to analyze the talent in 25 years of marriage. Part of it is the ability to look at a scene or object and immediately see the most important features that need to be represented in a drawing. She could take a pencil and sketch pad, look at someone's face, draw 5 or 6 curved lines in ten seconds, and you'd say, "Oh, that's Bob." Wtf? This is inconceivable to me.
I always wished there was some kind of brain to brain interface that would let me see the world as she did for a minute or two.
@shuttersparks I only discovered a few years ago that there’s this thing called aphantasia, where you don’t “see” things in your head. Or more accurately, I discovered that all those folks talking about what they saw when they remembered something weren’t using a metaphor, they actually saw something! I have a good eye for whether something looks good. But I can’t visualize it in advance. As a kid I could draw figures...I just never knew what kind of person I was creating.