I wanted to celebrate leap day yesterday by doing something I would only do if I had a lot more time. Perhaps one of those ladylike pursuits they talk about in Jane Austen movies (haven’t read the books). So completely out of the blue, I decided to learn how to draw!
Maybe I’d be able to do a fish or an apple or something? Work my way up to a face or a mountain after enough practice?
No, I didn’t trace that!
Your visual mind doesn’t see a left eye, it sees lines, shapes, and lights and darks that combine to make a whole picture of a left eye. In order to “draw what you see” you will have to learn to draw lines, shapes, and lights and darks that combine to make a whole drawing. Your logical mind, that labels everything it sees, will not be a part of the drawing process.
Lots of erasing. Don’t forget your pencil!
And all that in less time than it took for me to write this blog post. This really was amazingly easier than you would think (I have no more drawing experience than your typical 6th grader).
Anyway, I don’t think I’ll be taking up drawing in any more earnest at the moment, but you can look forward to Exercises in Drawing, Episode 2 – coming soon on February 29, 2016!
I bookmarked the tutorial for future review.
I learned this trick from watching White Collar!