One skill they should teach in schools is how to psychologically deal with models.
It is a strange thing. There is such tension, wanting to be able to even write a basic model to get it onto paper, and yet having it stuck in your brain. I imagine this must be what artists feel like when they are trying to make a picture, and they know what it should look like, but their hands can't make it happen. And how do we judge really good artists, but by how well they can represent reality, or the reality that they experience. Cezanne painted the same mountain over and over for 20 years, never depicting the image that was in his mind.
In the end though, we say something about some artists, "that artist, he/she has talent!" it doesn't matter if that face looks like a cube, or a real face, there's art that we see and we appreciate, because it resonates with what we know of reality. There's something inherent in artistic talent. (then there's an intellectual agreement between the producer and the consumer (viewer), but to be discussed later). The point is, there's just some people who CAN'T draw well.
My resonating fear is that I'm the kid drawing the stick figure claiming it's a bird.
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