Evening Drawing
Week 10: Exercises
Helena Lukášová, Hana Pokojná

Exercises to Train Your Hand(s) and Mind
•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 ;)
•Timed: 5 min, 3 min, 1 min, 30 seconds, 10 seconds
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Standing Pose
•20 min
•Standard, try to get the whole pose in. Don’t focus on details.
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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 sort-term visual memory
•Interestingly enough, the two drawings will be almost identical
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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 J

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 from
•Great for creating plasticity and form of the object

Blind drawing
•Exactly what it sounds like
•Look at the model, then close you eyes when drawing on the paper
•No cheating!
•The results are actually very cool, combination of organic shapes that look like people with
organic imperfections

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