drawing week 4

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+title: 'Drawing week 04 - Using the brain'
+date: '2017-05-10'
+subtitle: Drawing at the right side of the brain
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+- Learning yourself to draw
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+Also read [Learning yourself to draw](/post/learning-yourself-to-draw/).
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+As I'm slowly getting a tiny bit better at drawing things I see, I still don't have a fundamental basis to rely on. Until I've read "[Drawing at the right side of the brian](http://drawright.com/)" from Betty Edwards. Everything I've read in there came as a complete revelation to me. She explains how you should "look" at things, what is important to look out for when realisticly drawing and how values/tones work. It's an amazing book and I'm very glad I've added it to my toread list (a few years ago, I finally got around to actually reading it.)
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+Can you spot the difference between the portraits below?
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+Yes, I am well aware that the second portrait still looks like crap but come on, at least it shows highlights, it has a decent contour and my skull isn't "chopped off". Both drawings took me 45 minutes. I'd say that's a definitive improvement here.
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+Other exercises in the books concentrate on hands, interiour, chairs, ...:
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+Everything is done with a pencil. My preference is starting to lean towards 2B and 4B instead of HB. 
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+So, what did I learn this week: (these are some quick oneliners that summarize each important chapter in the book)
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+1. Draw (shared) edges of stuff: call them contours.
+2. Draw spaces between stuff: call it negative space.
+3. Draw relationships between stuff: call them angles and proportions.
+4. Draw lights and shadows on stuff: call them tonal differences.
+5. Do not draw the appearance of stuff: call it "the gestalt".
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+The last point is an interesting one. It's also called "making it come together" and is usually achieved by simply focusing on the other 4 points. 
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+Doing these exercises gave me a real boost in confidence and motivated me to draw even more. I even started enjoying the use of a pencil - soft shading is nice and not doable with a pen!
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