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January 2nd, 2007 |
I'll summarize: "Draw the contours and wrinkles of your hand for five minutes without looking at the page."
Yeah, I understand the point of doing this, but images like this still leave strange first impressions. :> |
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| Stickman |
January 2nd, 2007 |
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For those that don't know the point of doing this, you have to understand the way the human mind works.
The left brain is all about language, organization, and structure.
The right brain is all about intuition, visuals, and freeform.
Your right brain controls your art, your left brain controls your concepts. When you draw an eye and it comes out looking like a pinched circle or a square, that's your left brain talking. When you draw an eye and it really looks like an _eye_, that's your right brain talking.
As such, when you draw you want your right brain to be in the driver's seat. Unfortunately, the right brain doesn't normally take the driver's seat. This exercise is designed to force your right brain to take the driver's seat.
In ages past, I had a cast on my leg for two months. When I got it off, I couldn't move my ankle. After the doctor bent my ankle for me, it made me remember how to "trigger" my ankle to move. This exercise works like that. It forces you into your right brain mode so you can realize what it feels like, and hopefully turn it on whenever you'd like.
Good idea on solving the problem of staying within the borders, too. But your pictures just look like a bunch of scribbles. |
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| Ember |
January 2nd, 2007 |
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| Yeah well, yours were a bunch of scribbles when you did this exersize as well. ;) |
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