Is drawing a natural talent to all humans?

[kotaotan]

Talent is a magic word like "Abracadabra". It isn't real. "Talent" is practice + time = ability. Everyone tells me I'm talented when they see my stuff but I always tell them you have to start and the practice and keep doing it. TL;DR: Suck until you don't. That's what talent really is. Animals can do the same thing. It's all about learning.

[eagle1]

I see a lot of people discounting talent. Saying things like it doesn't exist.
I have seen too much talent in my life, and I possess a talent. It's very real, but just in case, here is a centuries old debate about talent vs skill.
The simple fact is that, as I related in an anecdote above, too many people who have a talent find it comes easy, and never do a lot with it. I stopped fencing after winning some titles, as frankly, I am too big to be a true champion. Far too large of a target. I have found other outlets over the years, but it's not my life.
Hard work (that axiomatic 10,000 hours) means a lot more, if one is willing to do the study/learning that goes with it. In the end, the true measure is the results, not how you got there.

Eagle
(Still a few more hours to go on a lot of subjects)

[puppetbomb]

I think it's a mix of both.

Case in point: Me and my brother started violin at the same age and practiced about the same amount of time every day. Fast-forward seven years later, my sound and technique was better than his, even though we were equal in amount of practice and affinity toward the instrument (we hated it).

I do believe skill can be learned.

But when it comes to the manifestation of appeal and creativity, I learn heavily on the belief that what you put out reflects something more innate rather than learned.

EDIT (not sure why my thing came out as a reply :/a)

[scythe]

Innate talents definitely exist. To state otherwise would be to ignore the millions upon millions of examples of people who simply 'take' to things with very little practise when compared to others. Mozart being a great example.

I also agree with something stated above to the effect that most of the masters in any given field possess a natural talent mixed with passion and practise. I remember hearing a story about a guy who was obsessed with becoming a chess grandmaster, and spent a good deal of his young adult life in pursuit of that goal. He certainly had the smarts (I think he became a neuroscientist in the end), but no matter how much he learned and practised, it just never happened. Meanwhile, he'd watch people much younger than him, who hadn't 'learned' the theory, and didn't have his experience getting to grandmaster. Then, one day, he got to play a grandmaster in a competition setting, and came to the realisation that all his hard work amounted to very little in the face of his opponent.

I think we all recognise that there are elements of this sort of thing present across all 'skill' pursuits.

[Alli]

Everyone can draw. The only differences between artists and non-artists is practice, the desire to improve, and the actual effort to improve. It's the same for sports, studying, and anything else. I had a lot of friends growing up who would say "I wish I could draw" but then they would never pick up a pencil and really try. They would ask me to do it for them. Or they could draw with one specific (and easy) style and would never try to learn a different way.

I can't skate. It would be nice if I could skate, but I don't practice, I don't own skates, and I don't really care enough about skating to put in the effort to get good at it. Other people make skating look easy. It's not. It only looks easy because they are good at it. They are good at it because they skate more than I do and have been doing it longer than I have. Art is the same.

[purrlpankras]

Welll.... idk about humans but my kind as a demon does have that talent.

Most....demons....

[Kamikaze]

I don't think it's something that is a 'natural' talent at all. I think some people are just more drawn to it as a form of expression. So many people come up to me and my team and talk about how talented we are, and that they could never make stuff as good as what we do. I say BS. Anyone, and I mean ANYONE can draw. Whether you draw well or not is all based on if you're willing to put in the work, time and effort to get better and keep getting better. Anyone can draw, but it takes time to build your skills.