Drawing what you see instead of what you know to be true.

Left vs Right.  The battle begins!  We know that the US flag is a rectangle with 13 stripes and 50 stars. When we try to draw it we begin to have a problem.  It doesn't look right.  It never will when we try to draw what the left side of the brain knows.  The reason...the flag is normally folded upon itself and stripes appear to change width, the stars are not perfect but curved parts of stars.  By drawing what I saw, the flag looks right. 

I haven't drawn in charcoal in awhile.  I forgot how messy it can be.  I do like how it turned out though.  I will now be drawing in charcoal for the next few drawings.  I think I need a can a fixative!