Drawing involves seeing and then transferring that on your canvas as it is or in your own voice.
Seeing in this case is observing in and out: what is the story behind what you are referencing, the gestures, shapes, forms. Ask questions, break it down.
enchanting every noticer (which is the other word for artist) The Day Hermann Hesse Discovered the Meaning of Life in a Tree – The Marginalian
To be human is to see in the rest of nature not what it is but what we are. If we are lucky enough, if we are wakeful enough, we might see both — but never only reality unselved. Because we are the seeing, we are also the seen — this is the price of consciousness.