Aha! I've figured it out at last! I've wondered for a long time what drawing what you see meant because I didn't really understand it but now I thank I know what it means. To me, drawing what you see means to draw the apparent, most simple shapes your eye can pick up mainly judged by negative space. If you try to draw something focusing on your subject mostly, it'll easily get out of proportion but if you judge by easy negative space shapes, your more likely to get it correct because since the shapes are very abstract you force your mind to draw it how it's there because it has nothing but those shapes to draw to have reference from. Otherwise, by only drawing what is really there, your mind will try to warp the shape. Any thoughts?

I bet your drawing improved five-fold upon discovering.

It's one of the principles of drawing. According to Loomis, "All drawing stem from one or more of these forms: round, square, cylindrical, conical, and pyramidal."

So well done figuring it out on your own. :)

delorted!

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lol, I wasn't giving him much new information, so I figured my post was unneeded. =)

There's also drawing the things you want to see, and drawing the things you want other people to see.... I'm not so sure if you can draw what others see. Nevertheless... my professor also told us to draw what we see. I didn't know exactly what he meant... I just thought it was one of those "easier said than done", but after reading the first post... I think I kind of get it.