Tomaso Carnetto Drawing I drew a line, stumbled over and fell down Drawing means any kind of work which is based on a linear connection from one point to another. These sketches may stand for themselves or lay the groundwork for further elaboration. I seek with this book to explain the topic of drawing as a natural given ability similar to speech. In this sense, drawing is not a specific technique for putting visual impressions on paper or canvas. Drawing has very little at all to do with copying something that has been seen. If we try to understand what drawing means in fact, we first have to take a look at the early beginnings of our ability to draw. Every child on earth who has learned to speak, has learned to draw by the same time, no matter in which culture it grows up. So we can say that everyone who speaks is able to draw from earliest childhood onwards, whether they then continue to do so or not. But most of us are convinced that we cannot draw right now, that we have to learn the skill. In fact, it is not a matter of skill at all, it is a matter of self-confidence. Drawing has nothing to do with copying what you see, it is much more a matter of an expressively formed trace of what you cannot imagine because it is too close to you.