![]() ![]() ![]() Please refer back to the relevant sections of Demo #1 for materials you’ll need and how to set up your work space. My hand drawing tutorials are all about learning to forget you’re drawing a hand, while learning to see in a new way that makes drawing accurately much easier. We struggle, trying to draw what we assume we’ll see – instead of seeing what’s actually there: how the specific hand in front of us looks…. What blocks us is our preconceived notions about what a human hand or leg or eye should look like. We often can’t draw because we’re blocked from seeing what’s right in front of us. Forget all the thoughts and associations you have with “handness.” They will interfere with your being able to really see, and to sketch what you’re seeing.īetty Edwards, who wrote the famous Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, explained that ![]() So you can blissfully forget about all the complexities of drawing a hand. In right brain mode, the artist is able to see what they’re drawing as a series of angles and shapes that are much easier to draw than when their subject is seen “normally.” That made all the difference to my drawing. Instead, I learned to see in “right brain” mode. (The artists’ focus on anatomy is historically associated with Leonardo DaVinci.) And Me Against Da Vinci? What’s the Right Way to Draw? describes the leap forward my own drawing took when I set aside all the artists’ anatomical information I had learned. If you’re not familiar with the “right brain” in drawing, please look back at my earlier Why is Learning to Draw “So Hard?” which gives the basics. ![]()
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