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Hannah Lavender ⚔️✨

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Hannah Lavender is a bi/pan comics artist & illustrator, biotech student, and reclusive hag. 📧:hannah @ studiolavender . com Represented by Charlie Olsen at Inkwell Management.

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Hannah Lavender ⚔️✨ @hannahlavender.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Well anyway, I’d heard that John Ruskin inspired William Morris (the famous designer and one of the inspirations of the Arts and Crafts Movement) so I got his book to learn a bit about him. Ruskin’s words in 1886, on learning to make art—a matter of *knowledge and shared feeling*, not of imitation:

Photo of a paragraph in a book by John Ruskin, 1886:

“Be assured, therefore (and this is a matter of great importance), that you will never produce a great drawing by imitating the execution of a great master. Aquire his knowledge and share his feelings, and the easy execution will fall from your hand as it did from his; but if you merely scrawl because he scrawled, or blot because he blotted, you will not only never advance in power, but every able draughtsman, and every judge whose opinion is worth having, will know you for a cheat, and despise you accordingly.”

Photo of a green cloth bound book with the words “works of John Ruskin” and “illustrated” printed on the cover.

Photo of the inside of the book it says:

“The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners. By John Ruskin, M.A. Author of “Modern Painters,” “Seven Lamps of Architecture,” “Lectures on architecture and painting,” etc. etc. With illustrations drawn by the author. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Publishers, 15 Astor Place. 1886.

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Hannah Lavender ⚔️✨ @hannahlavender.bsky.social · 06/09/2023

Well anyway, I’d heard that John Ruskin inspired William Morris (the famous designer and one of the inspirations of the Arts and Crafts Movement) so I got his book to learn a bit about him. Ruskin’s words in 1886, on learning to make art—a matter of *knowledge and shared feeling*, not of imitation:

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