Here’s an example of what I aspire to in clarity of line and presentation:
![](http://oook.info/images/Habichtadj.jpg)
(Clemens Habicht, in Jan/Feb 2020 Atlantic, pg. 82)
(Ida Tarbell, pioneer of investigative journalism)
…but no idea how to get to such fluency. I have been working with Adobe Draw on the iPad, using the iPencil as a tracing tool with some success (see back at Drift Inn from a fortnight ago) but the next step to interpretive drawing is a high one. Two more examples, working from
![29xii01](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49295609777_c5f0fdf84d_z.jpg)
And yesterday the Brown Truck brought Raymond Briggs’ absolutely brilliant Time For Lights Out (“an extraordinary exploration of old age in words and pictures”) and I ran across this illustration about halfway in:
![](http://oook.info/images/Briggscollageadj.jpg)
I ought to know how to do this sort of digital collage, and I think I almost do, but once again getting to fluency is daunting.