As a technical writer, I sometimes must create mock-up drawings to hand off to a skilled graphic designer. It is a shameful process, for my graphic handiwork is inevitably horrendous. It makes me realize that children draw sloppily not because they are children, but because they have no experience as drawers. An adult with an equal amount of experience will draw quite in the same way.
Like most people, I gave up drawing circa age 6 and my drawing skills have stagnated ever since. Here’s my Photoshop rendering of a mouth demonstrating the ideal position of the tongue tucked behind the front teeth when pronouncing the sounds /t/ (unvoiced) or /d/ (voiced).The graphic designer must really like it when I send her mock-ups like this; it must tighten her sense of job security.
