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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;krispy, post: 1942243, member: 19065&quot;]I&#039;m a strong believer that everyone can draw. It&#039;s just a matter of how much time and effort you want to put into it and what the results are you are looking for. If you draw every day for many years, you can develop many skills as an artist. Some people go to school to practice it and others just do it as a hobby. </p><p><br /></p><p>Consider what your goals are in &quot;coin art&quot; or any artistic expression. Are you attempting to acquire photo-realism by the simple tools of pen and pencil on paper or with a digital rendering program. It can be done! If it&#039;s the first time you picked up a pencil and tried to generate a photo-realistic drawing you may not be happy with your results. </p><p><br /></p><p>There are a pleathora of methods to render objects photo realistically. However, this is &quot;art&quot; and that is an expression of one&#039;s self, so unless you are trying to copy a three dimensional object perfectly life-like onto a two dimensional surface and share it on a 2 dimensional digital format, computer file, to internet and through a display screen, you are bound to assert some degree of your expressiveness, a visual comment you are making or about your skill, style or time spent rendering it. </p><p><br /></p><p>Afterall, the coin is a sculpted and reproduced piece of &quot;securities art&quot; designed for safe, effective and balanced commerce. As objects they (coins/notes) originate in the hands of very skilled crafts persons with a lot of technology at their side and a stack of innovation behind them to create these perfect looking pieces of art. </p><p><br /></p><p>It all starts with an idea, some sketching and some simple drawing tools, pen and paper. What we see in the coins and notes we admire are many design decisions and hours of work coming together to make these. Anyone spending a fraction of an hour sketching a likeness to a piece of money is likely only to reproduce a cartoon version, which may or may not be rendered artfully, which may or may not be their intention. Such an attempt to reproduce an image of money can be a great way to study how detailed and intricate are the design of these objects we handle everyday. </p><p><br /></p><p>Remember, anyone can draw. The results are personal, and while some may compare the drawing to the original subject as looking crude, it&#039;s more about the person holding the drawing utensil and applying themselves or their commentary or own skills they have put forth. It&#039;s doesn&#039;t have to be a photo-realistic copy to be acceptable as art. </p><p><br /></p><p>Keep at it... and search the internet for others who approach coins and notes as subject matter. A lot of art has included money in it&#039;s imagery or subject matter, and so you will see the wide variety that comes from the minds of different artists, operating on different levels and achieving different results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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