♪ Dulé: It's really magnificent.

John: I'd love to do a painting of you, if you wouldn't mind if I felt your face and saw what you look like.

Dulé: I would love it.

John: Have a seat.

Dulé: Sure.

This is a first.

All right.

John: Well, you know, for me, too.

I've never felt your face before, so it's a first for me.

I usually start with the hair.

I'm gonna squeeze in here.

Dulé: OK. All right.

John: And what you're looking for is the outside line and then the ears.

Find the jawline... and then the lips.

Thank you so much, Dulé.

Dulé: Walk me through your process.

How do you get to something from nothing?

John: A lot of times, I'll start with feeling a face, but also, this is the first time in history where people with visual impairments can use technology and have screen readers to be able to understand a photograph.

So this has scanned a photo of your face.

I can use the software to start at least getting an idea of a basic composition.

You know, just the basic head shape or where--how far apart the eyes are and that sort of thing, like with the anatomy.

[Computer beeping in varying pitches] But, like, here, so, like, where you can follow it...

So whenever I hear that high pitch, I know I'm on a line.

Then it stops.

But I can feel the angle of which way my finger's going, so when I go over here, I get going, and I know, OK, well, I'm at least going to go in this same sort of angle.

Dulé: Right.

[Beeps] ♪ A lot of times when you think of a disability, there's, like, "Oh, that's too bad," or, "That's sad."

You get this negative sort of feeling.

And art has a great way to show that it's not about what you lost, but it's about, What can you do and what can you experience?

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