Train Your Brain with This Drawing Exercise

🧠Drawing is a skill that anyone can learn and develop by training the right side of the brain.

✍️Our left brain often interferes when drawing, causing drawings to look different from the actual subject. Isolating the right brain can lead to more accurate representations.

🧩Using lines, shapes, form, color, value, and texture, artists arrange the elements of art to communicate a subject.

🔍Drawing from reference upside down helps shift the focus from the subject itself to the lines and shapes, improving spatial relationships.

🎨Creating representational drawings requires allowing the right brain to dominate, focusing on what we actually see rather than what we think we see.

Can anyone learn how to draw?

—Yes, drawing is a skill that anyone can learn and develop with practice and training the right brain.

Why do drawings look different from the actual subject?

—The left brain often interferes, relying on memory and analytical processes instead of accurate observation and drawing what is actually seen.

What are the elements of art?

—The elements of art include line, shape, form, color, value, and texture, which artists arrange to communicate a subject.

Why is drawing from reference upside down helpful?

—Drawing upside down forces the mind to focus on the lines and shapes rather than the subject, improving spatial relationships and accurate representation.

How can I create more realistic drawings?

—By allowing the right brain to dominate and focusing on what is actually seen, rather than relying on assumptions or memory.

00:00The video introduces a drawing exercise that can change the way you see and replicate the world around you.

01:17The exercise involves drawing upside down from a reference, which helps isolate the right brain and improve representational drawing skills.

02:22The exercise is based on the book 'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain' by Betty Edwards and focuses on training the right brain to see and communicate through art.

03:52Drawing from reference upside down allows the artist to focus on lines, shapes, form, color, value, and texture, rather than relying on memory and assumptions.

04:59This drawing exercise is beneficial for both beginner and experienced artists, as it helps develop observation and communication skills.

06:42After completing the exercise, the artist flips the drawing to compare it with the reference, highlighting the improvement in representational drawing.

06:59The video concludes by emphasizing that drawing is a skill that anyone can learn and develop with practice and training the right brain.