More life drawing

Yet more life drawing. I found it harder this time for some reason, due to some crazy days recently and tiredness I guess I found it interesting how the guy running the life drawing this time was asking people to do 'blind drawing', which is also mentioned in the book - drawing but not looking at the paper.

Another interesting thing I've found recently is that my memory has increased dramatically. I've been learning Mandarin for the past year, and only since drawing have I started remembering whole sentences and hard words, could this be linked? Possible!

Squashed drawings

Well, moving along into the next chapter, the book asks for us to draw Pablo Picasso's 'Portrait of Igor Stravinsky' upside down. Not labelling what we see and limiting ourselves, but rather seeing lines and shapes, in the hope that the Right side of the brain takes control over the Left, allowing for more creativity.

The result was not bad, but not right either. It started fine, but somewhere along the way I made parts bigger, making other areas squashed. Parts of it, like other students drawings mentioned in the book, were great. The cross over of the legs for example came out well I think. The head though, well what can I say, it looks as if Igor hasn't eaten in months! I believe I drew in the wrong order, and having re-read the instructions If I had drawn line, adjacent line, and so on, it would have turned out less squashed.

Lesson one - 3 drawings

I finally got around to drawing the first three tasks in my book 'Learning to draw on the right side of the brain'.
It involved drawing 1) my self portrait 2) my hand 3) someone from memory.
The first, my own picture, was hard. The finished product looks like someone from a criminal suspect flyer, but I think in some ways it does resemble me. The hair I still have no idea what to do with and things aren't the right sizes. By the end of the book hopefully it'll be better.
The second drawing, my hand wasn't to bad. The picture isn't perfect, but it's OK. I messed up the darkness of the shadow shades around the hand near the end, and have no idea how to shade in the top of the hand.
The third, drawing a person from memory, was the hardest. I tried to draw my dad. I hope he can forgive me for this truly bad picture (In the future I swear I'll make a better one  Dad!) One thing I found interesting, was that even though I rushed it out, I found myself shading under the nose and on the lips the same way I did on my self portrait. It also seems that not only do I need to improve my drawing, but also my spelling. It's Awful with out the 'e' haha.
Good stuff!