The latest exercise was another drawing of our hand, but this time we used perspective and a method called Pure Contour Drawing.
To help us with perspective we used the glass pane again, but this time it was only as a reference. I did another glass pane of my hand and sectioned it into four parts. Then I created equal sections on a piece of paper. Using a ruler and measurements, I made tic points for each major point of my hand on the glass pane. Doing this left brain activity really helped free my right brain. By freeing myself from needing the exact proportion, I was able to let go of the language that crops up from the left brain when you try to draw the fingernail or knuckle. Having the proportion done, your right brain can just hone in on exactly what you "see." For example, your fingernail stops being a fingernail and becomes a series of lines and shapes. When you draw the lines and shapes exactly how you see them and as you see them (Pure Contour drawing), something whole emerges, and the intricacies of a positioned hand are drawn without even trying.
As it turns out, this is exactly how Van Gogh taught himself how to draw. He walked around with a picture pane that he made out of glass and iron. He called a "perspective device," and he used it as a reference until he mastered perspective without it. According to my book, that is exactly what we will be doing: drawing with our glass panes, or perspective devices, until we no longer need them in order to "see like an artist."
I am glad that I am tackling drawing. Never in a million years did i think that i would ever be able to draw. This project so far has taught me two things: 1) most abilities, with time and patience, and practice can be learned 2) creativity and art and such a purely a matter of perspective; sometimes we need tools to see things differently, but the more we work at it, the easier it is to see things from different perspectives. I think that this is true of life as well.
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