DRAWING OUT THE ARTIST IN YOU!

Writing in the 'BrainBabes' edition of The InGenius Series of bookazines, Dilip Mukerjea introduces a very simple exercise on perceptual drawing.

In a nut shell, the purpose of the intended exercise is help you shut down your left brain in order to draw what you actually see.

All you need is a pen & a sheet of drawing paper.

Here it goes:

On the sheet of drawing paper, draw the hen as you see on the right.

Take your time . . . don’t rush!

Have fun!

Now, on the flipside of the drawing paper, look carefully at the drawing below, and copy it exactly as you see it.

Only when you have finished your drawing, turn it upside down. What do you see?

(An Upside Down Drawing is a trick - actually, it sort of makes no sense to you as you see as it is; hence your left brain, which relies on logic, shuts down voluntarily, while your right brain, which embraces imagination, happily takes over in the process - to help you draw better!)

If readers are keen to explore further the conceptual & technological underpinning of this simple exercise, as well as wanting to do more perceptual drawing exercises, please read creativity maestro Betty Edwards' two masterpieces:

1) 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain';

2) 'Drawing on the Inner Artist Within';

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