Picture Plane – another hand
Practice, practice, practice. I can focus on getting confident with my lines, angles, and details. Using the picture plane allows me to focus on seeing my three-dimension hand in two dimensions. I can disconnect from the hand and fingers and focus on the lines, space, and negative space.
Good practice sketch.
Picture Plane Practice - Hand
This is another hand sketch with the picture plane. Practice brings repetition, and I enjoy focusing on the lines, angles, and negative space, not that I am drawing a hand. It works as I focus on using my right brain and excusing my left dominant brain.
Enjoy
Another Upside-Down Man
Today’s sketch was another where you look at the image upside down. This exercise from the book Drawing on the Right Side of Brain reduces mental conflict. Drawing upside down uses the gap between recognition (knowing you are drawing a man) and drawing upside down, so you focus on lines, angles, and circles. In other words, use the right side of your brain.
This Drawing is from page 53 of Drawing on the Right Side of Brain and is by Pablo Picasso of the Russian Composer Igor Stravinsky.
It was enjoyable, and I focused on the lines and angles, not calling out a head, face, or hands. It works.
The Bike
Interesting how difficult it is to describe or draw something from memory. We have seen thousands of bikes, but sketching a bike from memory is complex. Remembering all the essential details is hard. This is true for many things we try and do from memory.
Today’s sketch is a simple bike – from memory. I really had a hard time getting the details – how does the down tube look, do I have brakes, how about the derailleurs…. And I raced bikes.
Another good exercise in slowing down and working through the details, something we can all do; sketching or not.
Another Mug Shot
I enjoy my morning coffee. And as I enjoy sketching in the morning, my morning coffee mug is a great subject. Another Disney mug.