Friday, September 21, 2007

The difficulty in drawing an Icon


My art skills have never been especially strong, but they've always got me by. The task I find before me is proving to be far more difficult than I had expected. Drawing a Fender Stratocaster should be easy- but- EVERYONE knows what it is supposed to look like. It has an Iconic form and presence in North America (and elsewhere I imagine). Its shape is known to even the least musical, and any mistakes I make in representing this shape on paper will be immediately evident to anyone. Oh well.

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