Roger Ebert, in a recent post, You can draw, and probably better than I can.
What you draw is an invaluable and unique representation of how you saw at that moment in that place according to your abilities. That’s all we want. We already know what a dog really looks like.
So I dug out a pencil and sketchbook at started up again.
I’m pretty bad, but at least I’m doing it. And soon I’ll have a picture of Jessica that no one else in the world could make.