This evening we discussed drawing and how our brain often times interferes and makes the process of drawing infinitely harder by skewing what we truly see into what we think we see or how I brain processes what we see.
To get around this the whole class participated in a Blind Contour Drawing. This is a type of drawing done without looking at the paper. It is supposed to be completed without lifting your pencil from the paper or lifting it only the smallest amount of times possible.
Despite my dislike of this particular exercise, it is a useful thing to do. Much like a warm up before a work out, it can help ease the mind and sometimes can take a person to a complete other world. unfortunately, despite the benefits, most contour drawings do not exactly turn out pretty.
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