Amazing Progress in your Drawings!

Rod Stewart by Arlinda

Pre-instructional drawing by Arlinda

Arlinda was one of my students whose work best shows just how important it is to see like an artist. Compare her BEFORE and AFTER drawings. She faithfully did the exercises that forced her to use her  creative right side of the brain, instead of her logical left side. The results are astounding.

It is all a matter of seeing things differently.

 I hope you did the exercise from my last blog. Which copied signature turned out more like the original? The one you copied upside-down should have, if you went slowly and copied the curves, lines and spaces. Why? When you copy it right-side-up your logical left side of the brain urges you to get it done quickly, and tells you what you already KNOW. ( "Now I´m copying a "S", now "M", now "I"...etc.). When it is upside down, you shouldn´t see letters but rather curves, angles, lines. Bingo...you have forced yourself into the right side of the brain by giving yourself a task that the left side hates to do. You have to quiet the logical side and slowly draw what you  SEE, not what you KNOW.

Want to try more? Get a line drawing of Mickey Mouse, or any simple line drawing, and turn it upside-down. Whatever you do, do not name what you are drawing. Just draw what you see. DO NOT sneak a peek and  turn YOUR drawing ( or the one you are copying) right-side-up until you are finished. Go Slowly.

In the next blog I´ll tell you how you will know if you are in the right side of the brain. ( besides the fact that the drawing will turn out better than if you had tried to copy it right-side up). Happy drawing!

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