"If you copy someone's appearance how do you get yours back after, do you get someone else to - hold onto your nose, or something -"

"Well, generally if someone is concerned with getting their exact face back, they'll spend a lot of time looking in mirrors before they change it, or have their friends do several very accurate portraits of them if they don't want to rely on their visual memory.  And from there it's possible to reconstruct it as long as you have a pool of people to draw from with facial features which your target ones can be considered 'in between'."

"I hope you are able to use my knowledge that cameras exist to reinvent them, then, I guess."

"They seem useful in general but not much different from portraits for this use case except in being somewhat faster?"

"I guess you're... all as good at drawing as you want to be."

"Yes.  Would the baseline level of ability be inadequate?"

"Extremely."

"Oh.  I know small children are generally fairly bad at it but they're also fairly bad at lots of things that you seem competent at.  Handwriting, for one."

"For kids it's mostly a motor skill issue on both counts, and that clears up for most people with handwriting - though some people have really bad handwriting - but drawing requires more specific practice."

"I'd be curious to see you draw something if that wouldn't be bothersome."

"Sure, as long as you're clear I'm not good at it."

He will attempt to draw a dolphin.

"Fascinating.  . . . What is that?"

"Well, it's supposed to be a dolphin."

"And that's - a type of fish?  No, not quite . . ."

"Marine mammal."

"Hm!  You'd mentioned whales and cetaceans; are these a sub- or supercategory of either of those?"

"Yeah, cetaceans includes whales and dolphins and porpoises and I might be forgetting things."

"Possibly there's more benefit to becoming good at drawing here than previously, for you, depending on how difficult it is to improve.  Lots of people would be interested to see alien creatures."

"I think even if I were much better at drawing I couldn't become good at drawing dolphins specifically or any other alien creatures without references to look at. Or maybe a little better but not a lot."

"That's unfortunate."

"Yeah, sorry."

"Maybe if you can describe them in enough detail at some point other people will manage it."

"Maybe! And maybe between my terrible drawings and somebody else's drawing skills and my ability to say when something still doesn't look right in their sketch we can between us come up with a tolerable dolphin."

"Let's hope!  Is Kyeo any good at drawing?"

"Not as far as I know, but I wouldn't know."