Elisa you’ve caused quite the debate in mixed opinions sweetie.
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All right let’s give this ago shall we.
First of all I must apologise first as my statement I made earlier as there being
no rules in drawing pictures is in more ways than one incorrect. What I was more aiming for was as you already said yourself generic drawings, drawings by people who don’t do it for living, people that draw for fun, people that feel like drawing random and abstract images, things like that.
Now when you described the “rules” earlier as being guidelines and forms of structure to help develop something, that’s what I agreed with you on. As you said earlier if you’re designing a building you must follow certain rules (“guidelines”) or else the final product will not succeed. Meaning the actual physical building itself.
Picture this situation, say somebody is telling two people to draw a car and giving only one of the artists guides and tips on how to draw a car and not giving the other person any information what so ever. Regardless of how realistic (or socially accepted) one car drawing looks to the other that doesn’t change the fact they that they are both picture drawings of cars. One of them was drawn following guidelines the other was drawn without following any rules at all. Now does that car drawn without rules mean that it’s not a picture of a car at all and we can label it “whatever” because no guidelines were followed during its development? In all truth I can’t answer this question as this part comes down to the individual viewing it.
Regardless of whether it is a drawing of anything or not, at one point in time there were no rules at all, this came down to the individual(s) who would do something and accept the outcome of it.
As for your last question, that once again comes down to the individual performing the action.
I’m not going to elaborate to much more; I’ll probably end up repeating myself or saying something stupid, I don't think I'm making to much sense anymore. Whether you agree with anything I said, or think my brain is cracked coconut is up to you. I don’t mind, you’ve made me think too much after a hard day of work
. In all seriousness though, thanks for your thoughts.
Cheers Areo.
~ And thank you too all the other members for your advice, ideas and support toward this drawing. You’re all awesome.