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Have you read Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain? It’s a thirty-year-old book that uses certain insights into neuroscience to teach the reader how to draw. Following a few basic exercises, anyone — no really, anyone, even you — can execute a drawing at least this decent.

DRSB explains how the brain thinks in terms of symbols, which inadvertently blocks people from actually seeing what’s in front of them. (It’s a bit like that old/young woman optical illusion.) The book goes on to train the reader to start seeing again. After learning to see, drawing is straightforward.

The Last Psychiatrist believes that, similarly, people use symbols as intellectual crutches when trying to express complex beliefs. Also there’s a bit about Indiana Jones. 

You should buy this book. (not my referral link btw)