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In a blind contour drill in life drawing, the instructor announced to the class that he has never, in all his years of teaching, seen a student render the model in "perfect perspective" (his words) until I came along.
And I did that without even looking at the paper when making a mark. And yeah, most artists and art students I've known cannot draw all that well. And Ive certainly known or known of more than a few who were above average and did very passable work who thought they were excellent, when in actuality, they were just adequate and on the cusp of real competency.
The drawing paper was on easels, and we were using sticks of charcoal. We were allowed to look at the paper while using a kneaded rubber eraser, but not while using the charcoal.
Take it as purely self-aggrandizement if you must, but it's a fact.
And it certainly requires a degree of artistic talent and technical skill to routinely "compose" excellent photographs.
And in many ways, photography rendered naturalistic artwork obsolete.
This is not to say that artists should not learn to draw, however. No matter what the end result of a work looks like, it's absolutely integral to hone those skills.
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