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> who would draw a laboratory setup including a stool and I knew he knew exactly how to build the stool.

I love that about illustrators. A decent illustrator is also simultaneously an engineer and a designer.

And every good engineer was once also a decent illustrator. Such skills are less respected these days as we draw so many lines between art and engineering. Few if any recent engineering grads could freehand a simple image of a bird.

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