Looking at a subject in great detail can be enlightening, as it aids you in understanding it's larger nature more thoroughly. Likewise drawing something in intricate detail allows skills of perception and interpretation to be developed, so that drawings of a larger nature can be informed by your understanding of the intricate detail of your subjects workings. Leonardo Da vinci was famed for precisely this, In fact he went to the lengths of dissecting corpses in order to better understand their anatomy and his illustrations of the human form clearly reflect his immense understanding of its movement.
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