lesson 6
CAN YOUR EYES DECEIVES YOU?
Here are some pictures that we can easily recognize. But we can’t just look at them one way. To see the other hidden picture, we need the help of our right brain.
What do you see in this picture?
Two faces looking at each other or a cup? Do you see both?
What do you see in the following picture?
Is the face facing you or is it in profile?
What do you see in the following picture?
Do you see many columns or 4 human figures?

DOODLE
Start doodling!
Draw a continuous line on the paper. Don’t lift your pencil, make it a curved, winding line that crosses each other wherever it wants to curl or twist. Do this until you have completely tangled your paper.
Now just look at your drawing for a while. See the little shapes that were created by the intersection of the lines. Just look at how many exciting shapes were created that you didn’t even draw directly.
Is there anything that resembles something from real life? If suddenly nothing, it’s your left brain trying again.
Look at my drawing, how many fish … are in it.
The lines don’t resemble fish, birds, flowers at all, they just suggested them to me.
It’s likely that you will discover completely different shapes in my doodle. If you want, color the shapes or just keep the abstract creation.
Summary
1, Practice drawing slowly and quickly
2, Scribble with your eyes closed, don’t lift your pencil or pen.
3, When you’re ready, admire your drawing slowly and look for shapes that resemble something! Just like when you were a child when you looked at the clouds.
4, Color it!
5, You can draw anytime, all you need is a sketchbook and a pencil, if it’s from a photo, ask your family members to pose for you. Later, whenever you have to wait, you can draw 🙂 The notebook shouldn’t be expensive because if you practice, it will fill up quickly, it will be good later if you need inspiration.
DON’T SPY
Contour drawing is another name for line drawing
Blind tracing is a drawing technique where you don’t look at your drawing while you’re drawing.
While you’re drawing, you only look at the object, you don’t look at the paper you’re drawing on, and you don’t lift your pencil while you’re drawing.
The point isn’t to create a perfect drawing – in fact, when you’re done and you look at it, you might see a big scrawl, and that’s perfectly fine.
The point is to let your eyes follow the object and your pencil follow your eyes.
Let go of your expectations of your drawing completely. Focus on how it feels to let your hand move freely on the paper. As soon as you’re done with one drawing, do another.
Feel it, relax
What do you learn from this exercise?
- You’ll experience what it feels like to not be able to exercise the usual control over what you’re doing.
- You can let go of your expectations about what is being created on paper.