When we talked about the Camera Lucida and The Lucy - the devices for transferring a drawing to paper or a canvas, I mentioned that a person could also transfer a photograph - and raised the question of when is it cheating to use photography for the under-drawing of your painting.
A few people are born with the ability to render what they see without any aids. It's like perfect pitch. Most of us have seen articles about people who have significant impairment along one of those *spectrums* which causes them to have some challenges with typical day-to-day stuff - but they can easily make very accurate drawn images.
Once again, I have no idea where I am going with this. Maybe it's just another reminder to make stuff and if you think you have to come up with something 100% original that has never been done - you need to amend that thought.
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