Since I plan to have drawing in my daily meditation exercise, I wanted to perform some type of activity involving drawing for this weeks assignment. I know that drawing is something I can concentrate solely on as I'm doing it. I often get "lost" while illustrating. I aim to use this "right brain" action as a sort of meditative practice. The subject of which will be the human body. For this certain brainstorming assignment, I decided to draw my hand in three different ways--the pictures of which are included.
I wanted to capture the interaction with a pen AS I was drawing.
1.) For the first drawing, I used a method from a previous reading and did the drawing upside down. I took a picture of my hand as if it was holding a pen. I printed it out, then flipped it over and began to draw. I tried to refrain from thinking about the image as a picture of my hand, but rather, a set of organic shapes. When I would begin to recognize the image, I would stop, pause to think only about shapes, then start again.
2.) For the second drawing I did not use a reference photo. Instead, I looked directly at the pen I was holding as I was drawing. Like the previous exercise, I tried to image what I was seeing as a shape--not a hand. It seemed that when I started thinking about what it was, I tried to correct my drawing--which actually made it worse. When I trusted myself to simply draw, the image turned out more accurate.
3.) The third drawing followed the same rules for "simplifying" the reference subject (part of my hand). However, this time I did tried to sparingly look back at my drawing as to not distract myself. I tried to "feel" what I was drawing. All-in-all, the scale is a little off, but I was surprised at the accuracy for not looking back.
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