Drawing Essentials
Watch this video to expand your thinking about drawing and perceived limitations:
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Watch the video below about the Brain and Drawing
Drawing & Your Brain
There are several ways to train your artistic eye to look at shapes and lines instead of identified parts. Drawing an inverted image helps make it unrecognizable to the more symbolic & language part of your brain (aka L-mode) so that you can focus on just the lines, shapes, and spaces between.
Drawing 1:
Practice: Place your computer with the goose near your sketchbook or look at a paper copy up-side-down next to your sketchbook. Draw it just as you see it. (Do NOT attempt to draw it right-side-up). Try to think of it as re-creating lines – same size, angle, shapes, one connected to the next. Don’t let your mind name or label the parts you are looking at; just recreate it exactly. Move from top to bottom, left to right, and work your way through the drawing until you have recreated all of the lines. Take your time. You have the whole period.
Recommendation: Do NOT try to draw the entire outline of the form then fill in the parts. This may be one of your existing drawing strategies, but today we are trying THIS STRATEGY. The goal is to expand your drawing skills so authentically follow this process of moving from line to adjacent line, space to adjacent space, working your way through the drawing and fitting the parts together as you go
Drawing 2:
On the next page of your sketchbook, draw the image shown below. Again, draw exactly what you see. Do not attempt to invert the image. It will look rightside up when you are done.
