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Sharlene!
You mention editorializing, and that the camera sees everything at once, whereas we don't.
This brings up an interesting point. As a former photographer I was ALWAYS aware of the editing aspect involved in what is also a 2D medium. The photographer edits constantly using light and angle etc to eliminate what is non-essential to the final image.
Similarly, the painter or draftsman (I refuse to write "draftsperson" so please include all of humanity in the definition...!!!) has to decide through use of line, tone, composition and medium what is essential to the final result.
I would argue that the greatest draftsmen did this with insight, economy and daring. In an earlier post I mentioned Rembrandt's amazing ink, brush and pen sketches of people and landscape. I bet if you put a ruler on them they would contain all sorts of "mistakes", but what gloriously executed and felt mistakes they must have been to convey so much and be so "present" to us at a distance of centuries!
When I first looked at Giacometti's drawings I didn't "get" them at all. Now after three years of sculpture, I think they are superb. What evocations of structure and space and form!
I no longer care for academically perfect renditions, unless they have the urgency and purpose displayed by those who are striving to find something real and human.
I guess this is a long reply, but then it is written, I hope, in the urgent and risky manner that I believe a good drawing should be drawn.
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