The main reason why the drawings are considered of poor quality is the painting.
Had the MS not been painted at all, the drawing quality would have hardly stood out as being 'poor'.
The herbal drawings are far better and more detailed that those in alchemical herbals.
The cirdular diagrams are not worse than others in contemporary manuscripts.
The only remaining poor aspects are the human figures. This is primarily due to the heads/faces, and in second place due to the bad proportions, again caused by the heads.
Look at the clothes of a well-illustrated manuscript, for example here:
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It is a typical example where the painter uses different shades of the same paint to create a sense of depth. This is a completely normal thing to do in the 15th century, and it is also completely absent in the Voynich MS.
Had the MS not been painted at all, the drawing quality would have hardly stood out as being 'poor'.
The herbal drawings are far better and more detailed that those in alchemical herbals.
The cirdular diagrams are not worse than others in contemporary manuscripts.
The only remaining poor aspects are the human figures. This is primarily due to the heads/faces, and in second place due to the bad proportions, again caused by the heads.
Look at the clothes of a well-illustrated manuscript, for example here:
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It is a typical example where the painter uses different shades of the same paint to create a sense of depth. This is a completely normal thing to do in the 15th century, and it is also completely absent in the Voynich MS.
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