Over the years I have taught drawing to middle school, high school, college, and adult education students. One of my favorite classes to teach, after many years of technical drawing, was 'rapid visualization.' Using graphic expression on paper, or a screen, to render the notable parts of an object depicted for some use later. This is not 'fine art' where one is drawing a portrait, or a moody landscape by the sea. 'Rapid Viz' should have little to do with self expression or the agonies of one's soul.
Just as one can learn to write without becoming a 'writer' one can utilize drawings without becoming 'an artist.'
So... the level of skill one uses when taking visual notes is ultimately irrelevant. The drawing is a tool of memory and recording, not an object to hang on a wall in a frame and be fetishized.
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