It is the most essential thing, and it never gets taught by any of the thousands of professional artists in youtube tutorials, or anywhere on the high-information web: everything must begin with you fully identifying with your subject, or identifying with the object.
One might say that because identification with your subject is something that cannot be taught, or because it is something like a mustard seed, it doesn't bear mention, but that is ridiculous. Not mentioning it is to impoverish everything you have to teach.
There is a mysterious work - a beautiful making - in which identification can start by way of the gaze, but the fullness of identification does not end with the gaze; or identification can begin wholly interiorly, and gain its fullness in the gaze.
Nonetheless, everything hangs upon the thin invisible thread of the human gaze.
It is weakness allowing for completion.
You don't have that, you don't have anything.
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