Comment by asimpletune

Sometimes it blows my mind how good Leonardo is at drawing. It's really striking when you go to a museum that has artists from the same time period. Leo's stuff is just head and shoulders above the rest. In a way, it's like he knows exactly what detail to capture that makes something look realistic. It's a form of compression I guess, but done by a human. In a way, it's better than a photograph because it captures how we judge a subject. To see what I mean, try tracing a photograph.