| o Many people consider tracing to not be a method | | | | artist reconfigures these into something new, slightly |
| of drawing.o Many people attribute tracing to | | | | different and unique. This is how art has been |
| cheating.o Many people attribute tracing to not having | | | | practiced for centuries but this is merely tracing the |
| any value.o Many people dismiss tracing without | | | | footsteps of others. |
| having tried it.o Many people who do draw pictures | | | | There is more than one way to trace pictures, all of |
| use tracing methods.o Many universities, colleges, | | | | them bring great benefits to aid your learning and |
| schools and books teach it.o Many pictures are | | | | understanding of how drawing works but you will not |
| treasured regardless of how they where created.o | | | | gain from any of these activities if you just do them |
| Many pictures are not treasured but still took great | | | | blindly. |
| skill and pain to draw. | | | | They teach tracing in primary schools to children |
| All drawings are traced using different methods. The | | | | because it is a quick easy way for them to achieve |
| people who consider tracing not be a method of | | | | positive outcomes but at four, five or six years of |
| drawing must be missing the fact that drawing | | | | age your primary goal is to have fun and enjoy |
| means to pull something and is most often attributed | | | | yourself, to play, not become obsessed with |
| to using a tool to draw with, making some form of | | | | understanding drawing. |
| drawn image, representation. | | | | Tracing gives children their first understanding of how |
| Many drawings are made by hand with a tool and | | | | shapes work and interact with each other but like I |
| regardless of them being traced or draw free hand | | | | have already pointed out children quite rightly are too |
| they are still being draw and traced, you trace the | | | | busy playing to take much notice, so that comes |
| subject/picture with your eyes to guide your hand in | | | | later. |
| the direction you want your lines to go. If you draw | | | | To gain the benefits that can be gained from simply |
| something that did not exist before then it must | | | | tracing pictures you must look at what you are |
| have some basic intrinsic value because now it exists, | | | | doing, see what you are doing and take notice of |
| where as before it did not, it has a hard substantial | | | | what you are looking at. If you are just doing it |
| state. | | | | blindly then no amount of tracing pictures will bring |
| All art prides its self upon being built from copying the | | | | you any gains in your drawing because you need to |
| techniques, styles and methods of others where the | | | | do it with the intention of learning how pictures work. |