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Left Brain Vs. Right Brain 2
Glance down at the following drawing. Does it resemble anything familiar? If not, that's good. Try not to look too hard. The point of the lesson is not to identify the subject – quite the opposite in fact. This exercise is designed to practice using the right side of your brain, the more visual side.
Starting at the top of the image, simply draw the lines
and shapes that you see. As you work your way down, look
for the angles that each line takes as well as the
distances between lines. If several lines intersect one
another and you see a shape, focus on drawing the
overall shape instead. It doesn't matter if you
replicate the image perfectly. The key is to practice
drawing with the visual mode of your brain. This may
seem awkward at first but take your time. The more you
challenge yourself to these types of exercises, the
easier it will become for your brain to process and
correctly translate what you are seeing to the page.
When you're finished, turn your drawing right side up.
What do you see? Does it resemble anything familiar now?
As you know, this was an exercise in seeing through a
different visual mode. One that does not label and then
draws from memory but one that sees details, shapes and
how they coordinate to form an overall image. As you
were drawing, you weren't thinking about drawing the
pocket or sleeve of the jacket perfectly because at the
time you were not aware they were "pockets" and
"sleeves". To you, they were straight lines that more or
less intersected at 90 degree angles. This is how we must
think as artists.
Other pages of interest
Left side of
the brain vs. the right side
More on art and
the brain
Negative
space and contour drawings
Fundamentals
of structure
Drawing
lines: The straight and curved line