Signatures

There has been so much written about drawing, and how to draw, and what it means when we draw. I have shelves full of these books, and I thumb through them diligently, looking for some clue as to how to improve, or some easy insight. It's as if there may be a missing essential piece of information about drawing, that someone else has, or once had, and could be transferred by reading about it. As a child, like most drawers, I drew alot, and it wasn't necessary to know anything at all- so I can't say what would be different now. I compare it to handwriting, or signing your name. A signature is indelibly the signatory's, and only with great difficulty can it be changed, or, for that matter, copied. A drawing obviously has the same characteristics as a signature, and we certainly read much of the personality of a draftsman in sketches. It takes a Graphologist to interpret a signature, and perhaps not all that accurately. But it does not take a Graphologist too appreciate a signature, or a drawing.