Fun Thursday Drawing 7 7 16

Blind contour drawing.
You are asked to keep your eyes on the object, not on the paper. In the second run you can peek at the paper to check if the position of pen/pencil is correct and preposition it, but you shouldn't see the pencil/pen moving. You move it ONLY when you look at the object.
This exercise helps you to start drawing what you actually see rather than what you remember and improves eye-hand coordination. Most untrained people start drawing by looking at the object, memorizing it and then they look down at the paper and start to draw from memory. The problem is that at this moment your left brain jumps into the game and, as usual, start to simplify and symbolize what you saw. Also our visual memory is really bad :)

We just don’t remember all the details, that’s how our brain works. So when you look at the paper and try to draw the thing that you actually don’t remember clearly you start to have problems…

Blind contour drawing helps to overcome those problems. If you practice it regularly you will learn to draw exactly what you see :) Some pictures from the event are here:
www.facebook.com/Kouzza-1654308768127467/photos/?tab=album&album_id=2052503348308005
See you next Thursday! We will have something new to play with!