On how to teach drawing

On Monday I'll be doing a class with some writing students in which I take them through some basic drawing techniques and then lead a discussion on how this might help their writing. I believe deeply in the idea of drawing as 'expressive mark making', and that you can start drawing using the simplest gestures and shapes. But I also thought this diagram, which I saw on Andrew Sullivan's blog 'The Daily Dish', was pretty funny:

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