“No! she said. “What you’ve done beside it?” I looked at the quick sketch I’d done of her face. Nothing at all that good, just a simple line drawing…

With a modern understanding of perspective. Crosshatching to shade. A basic artist’s knowledge of the underlying musculature and the way shadows fell.

Hot damn! Maybe my education hadn’t been completely useless.

The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England, pp88

I haven’t read to many works of fiction where the protagonist can draw. I’ve read many where they’re writers or professors, etc, but not visual artists. And here in the backdrop of medieval England understanding how even a quick sketch rooted in drafting fundamentals would’ve seemed like magic during that time.

Sanderson, Brandon. The Frugal Wizard’s Handbook for Surviving Medieval England. United States, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC.