Jack Southern and Mick Maslen have been evolving as artists and lecturers for over 20 years, and are sharing their experiences through this book. They hope the projects encourage an “open-minded sense of discovery” and becoming familiar with the unfamiliar.  The most encouraging thing in this reading is that Maslen quotes, ” we can all draw in our own way, but what we sometimes fail to do is recognize the things that are particular and special about our way of drawing.” And that is true, because we can never know how someone is going to react, or how they look to others. And I always tend to compare my work to others which is good and bad seemingly at the same time. I hope this book encourages me to see drawing differently and take my work to another level.