Evening Drawing
Week 9: Exercises
Helena Lukášová, Hana Pokojná
Exercises to Train Your Hand(s) and Mind
• You will find out about the exercises as you begin them so you can’t
‘prepare’ for them
• They are meant to loosen you, let you draw more intuitively and
help you ‘forget’ for a few minutes what you have learned and are
used to
Exercises
•20 min standing pose
•10 min standing pose from memory
•15 min drawing with your non-dominant hand
•13 min with just one line
•13 min NO line
•Blind drawing ;) 13 min
•Timed: 5 min, 3 min, 1 min, 30 seconds, 10 seconds
Standing Pose
•20 min
•Standard, try to get the whole pose in. Don’t focus on details.
From Memory
•10 min
•Based on the previous 20 minute pose, the model will relax now and
it’s your job to re-draw what you drew
•Don’t look at the previous drawing- it defeats the purpose of the
exercise
•This is to test your muscle memory and to train your short-term visual
memory
•Interestingly enough, the two drawings will be almost identical
Drawing with non-dominant hand
•15 min
•This is to loosen you up!
•You will focus on using your ‘clumsy’ hand hard enough that you
won’t get distracted by the details
•Unless you are ambidextrous… in that case, good on you ☺
One-liner
•13 min
•Don’t lift the pencil from the paper
•This is to guide you away from perfectionism
•Play with weight and heaviness of the pencil on paper, try different
pressures
•Need to shade? Just go over the area without lifting the pencil
NO- liner
•13 min
•You are not allowed to draw the outlines of the body
•Use dots or cross-hatching to create form
•Great for creating plasticity and volume of the object without
constraints
Blind drawing
•Exactly what it sounds like
•Draw the last pose you remember
• Model can relax
•The results are actually very cool, combination of organic shapes that
look like people with natural imperfections and misalignment
Timed
•5 min
•3 min
•1 min
•30 seconds
•10 seconds
•The reduction of time forces you to simplify your shapes and focus on
the generality of the picture rather than specifics
•It’s a cool progression when you put them next to each other