Something I’ve always wondered: Were medieval artists really that bad? Or was it just a very strict style everyone had to follow because, I dunno, church?
I believe it’s because almost all of their training would be in drawing people and objects… and they were still struggling to do that accurately. You tell a person like that to draw a dog and they are going to draw a furry object with a human face, since they didn’t really study the features of dogs.
Something I’ve always wondered: Were medieval artists really that bad? Or was it just a very strict style everyone had to follow because, I dunno, church?
I believe it’s because almost all of their training would be in drawing people and objects… and they were still struggling to do that accurately. You tell a person like that to draw a dog and they are going to draw a furry object with a human face, since they didn’t really study the features of dogs.
They drew people and objects badly as well…
I said the exact same thing?
Oh sorry! I misread, that you just meant that that was the reason they were bad at drawing dogs.