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Images are the native language of the imagination.
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This is why most people don't dream in text.
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Now making images is not only an art
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but a visual form of communication
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that it's rich and is complex as written language.
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The most fundamental way to make an image is to draw one.
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Now I've drawn for my entire life
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I've taught thousands of people to draw
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and I am convinced that drawing is a skill
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that is as essential as literacy and numeracy.
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Now specifically I'm talking about observational drawing,
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which means to observe something
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and draw an accurate representation of it.
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Observational drawing is more of a science than an art.
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It requires learning how three dimensional
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forms occupy space,
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how they interact with light,
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and demands that every attribute of the subject
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be analyzed and recorded.
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Now people often assume that
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a good drawing is accurate from it start
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but this is absolutely not the case.
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The first lines of a drawing are rarely accurate,
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so they're drawn lightly
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often so lightly they're hardly visible.
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Light lines can be drawn, evaluated
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and redrawn as many times as necessary
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in order to arrive at an accurate representation.
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This means that drawing trains our minds
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to view our mistakes
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as an essential part of a process.
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Too often people experience a sense of
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shame regarding their mistakes,
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but imagine what might have been different in your life
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had your mistakes in any area been viewed as normal, temporary,
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and holding vital clues your eventual success.
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Now in addition to being fundamental to drawing
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this is also the mindset that is crucial for innovation to occur.
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The ability to innovate is essential
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in a global economy
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where almost anything to be commoditized
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except the process of innovation.
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In fact new ideas only occur when we take risks
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and our failures become productive.
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Drawing habituates that thought process
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and bearing it in mind is a perfectly
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natural way of finding solutions.
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Now I often hear people say
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that drawing doesn't have a practical use outside of art design
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and I actually agree with one addendum,
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if you're a human you're a designer.
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To design is to analyze and solve problems.
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Limiting ourselves to words and numbers
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leaves a gap on our problems solving skill set.
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Human beings have a powerful imagination
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that when tempered with a design process
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can solve almost any problem.
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Drawing is a tool that allows us to visually tap into that imagination
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and extract ideas so they can be developed.
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Drawing when combined with language and mathematics
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offers a complete set of tools
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for solving and exploring creative challenges,
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as well as communicating those solutions to others.
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Now in almost every drawing class I've ever taught
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there are students who are convinced that they can't learn to draw
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because they're not talented.
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The whole concept of talent is that of a skill-based aristocracy,
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that if we're not born into we're doomed to mediocrity.
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This idea create a dangerous mental block to human capacity.
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Fortunately researchers are proving that mastering any field
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depends much more on passion and practice that innate ability.
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Just like language and mathematics drawing can be taught
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and while you're learning how to draw,
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you may begin to wonder
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what else you are capable up
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to use to assume required talent.
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There is a sense that people often get
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when viewing an old drawing
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that it was done because the camera
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had not yet been invented.
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But the act of drawing is much closer to solving a mathematical equation
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than taking a photograph.
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Drawing is an active way of engaging reality
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of observing, analyzing and recording it
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with the possibility of reimagining it.
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40% of our brain is devoted to processing visual information,
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that's more than all over other senses combined,
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but most people never gain the conscious understanding
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of how to communicate visually through an image based language
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which is a universal language.
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Now in my own life, drawing is how I've made sense of the world,
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to borrow from thorough drawing is always been my way
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of driving life into a corner and reducing it down.
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I would encourage everyone
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to participate in this fundamental human experience.
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I'm calling for a widespread visual literacy,
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whether it's on paper, tablet or any other form of technology,
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visual literacy begins with drawing.
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Thank you.
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(Applause)