The Drawing Exercise that Changed My Life

It's a strange and unhelpful method. It's more like a marketing technique to attract attention and sell more books.

Thank you, super excited to try this weekend and BTW, you have the most beautiful blue eyes. I kept looking and wow... pretty eyes color :)

I'm a psychologist and an artist. The whole Left v Right Brain "theory" is oversimplified nonsense and has been discredited a long time ago. That book is filled with simplistic and inaccurate information about perception and cognition. Ignore all that and do the exercises; they are helpful. However, note that she wasn't the first author to present those exercises. Also, if you look at the before and after drawings, you can see more accurate drawings but the artists still display some of the same problems they had to begin with. For example, using harsh lines. So, these exercises will help you see but you need to also learn drawing and shading skills.

Matt, it would have been better if you hadn't shoved all your marketing at the front of the video, without showing us anything that we are about to learn. Sounds like clickbait bullshit to me.

The hemispheres of the brain being divided like that had been largely discredited.
There is no "creative side"
It still might have some value as a conceptual tool.

That’s pretty good! I never thought of drawing things upside down before! I will try that

Damn boy you just wasted 7 minutes of my life

My pawpaw bought me this book!! I made it halfway through with all the practices before life happened. I need to find it again and start up. I had just passed this chapter too!! This is fate that I need to continue it to progress my artistry!

This is really fascinating! Ive never heard of it. Im going to try it tomorrow. Its 1am so.....THANK YOU!

But my lines and shapes suck!! That's the problem =[ my drawings look like a child did it. Like the shape of a flower pedal, can't draw it. Even a simple heart, rarely get both sides even.... And I can't draw the outline of a star without drawing all the middle lines too. I'm just horrific at copying shapes and stuff =\ none of my lines are straight eithrr

My middle school art teacher told me, "Draw what you see, not what you think you see".
Changed my entire perspective on representational drawing.

So this is why my brain stops being noisy at times when I’m fully immersed in the art I’m making that actually comes out good!

Brilliant!!!!!!

the left/right brain idea has been shown to be such a simplification that it's meaningless

Thanks ❤

Thank you! Because I found your courses, I learned to draw! The way you teach, makes sense, and you teach in a very logical way and by doable steps. I appreciate everything you teach!

It was really hard for me to decide whether I like the color pallet of this video or disturbed by it, so I flipped my TV upside down and your eyes are steel hypnotizing .

Look's like a great exercise, Thanks.

I just can't control my damn hands...

So... thanks for showing us this espetacular and simple technique ... I believe can help a lot of artists.

😮 mind blown 🤯

Cool...

Basically, you construct a picture piece by piece instead of wholesale as one.

Brilliant video thanks for sharing your fantastic talent. 😀

Thank you stay blessed JazakAllah 🌷

Wearing a cotton glove is good value.
I cut out the thumb, and index finger slots.

I’m reading that book right now

Super

I read this book almost 20 years ago. Drawing upside down really works. The drawing I did upside down, did look closer to the picture, than the one I did right side up. Interestingly, I drew more accurate details that matched the pictures, because I was drawing only what I saw, amazing. In the book I drew the example of an armoured knight on a horse, and a well known person sitting in a chair with he’s knees crossed. It was someone like Eisenstein, or Mark Twain. The resemblance was surprisingly accurate. My book is packed away, along with the practice drawings. Unfortunately, they are out of state, but I’m going to dig them out next trip. Yes, the premise of the book, does work.

Too much yakiddy yak yak.

where’d you pick up that accent. every time i hear drow’ing it feels like being hit in the head. everything else sounds natural, but you over pronounce “drawing” and it is annoying. also, just show the thing. blah blah change your life, please. just looking for drawing tips. not gonna change my life. byeeeee.

Thanks!

Ive done this for awhile its works well

That was a lovely exercise. Thank you.

That was amazing. Thank you for sharing your experience, this will be my first drawing exercise. I'm a new subscriber. Thanks again.

Another thing you can do is close your eyes and draw one continuous line in abstract movements, then see what you did. Then color them in like a stained glass window or whatever you want to. It can just stay abstract with colors.

How do i get a likeness drawring a circle up side down.!

🤯Holy cats that lesson COMPLETELY CHANGED THE GAME FOE ME! My lines dont look " grade school " anymore! It took exactly 5 minutes to feel the differemce. Sooooo appreciative!

I'm a homeschool mom and not a horrible artist but never taught art before. Which videos would you recommend for an eight yr old and twelve year old to start learning to draw..especially the eight year old,w/out getting discouraged?

Wow..i've never been told to do this. So cool!

Thank you!

Hi. Apart from the color wheel and the zorn palette, can you suggest any other keys to mixing good colors?
Greetings from Poland.

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I love this exercise. I haven't done drawing in decades and I'm feeling like I need to relearn though I can draw imaginary things like dragons and robots. My favorite though is perspective drawing even when it comes out kinda wonky. When I did drawing every day I spent every weekend in a town square drawing perspectives until the sun went down. I had fun with flowers too. But DotRSotB I could do portraits. But alas, use it or loose it. Thanks for the art lesson 😁

TL;DW draw from a line drawing upside down

I draw every morning updide down.... my proportions need alot of work😊❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉

(I'm not a very good artist.) I used to think that an artist's hands moved magically on their own. Indeed I have seen sketch artists who don't even look at the paper while they're drawing. Then I found that I could draw the outline of a shape if I knew exactly what shape I wanted to draw. You put into words what I was vaguely thinking and I am working on what you said right now.

Thanks for sharing this, very valuable advice right here, I will try this exercise

I was a decent self taught artists as a kid. I met a guy that showed me something similar to the trick that changed everything for me. I used to keep the page in front of me just like in this video, contorting my wrist and arm to work around what I was putting on paper. This guy I met asked me why I wasn’t rotating the page instead. Duh!!! Drawing is a lot of muscle memory so if one particular stroke is your strongest, just rotate the page so that you have maximum control over that particular line or shape. I know most sketch/comic/pencil artists tape their pages down but moving the page around allowed me to be more confident. I was able to use my strongest hand motion more often. Maybe this makes sense maybe it doesn’t. I love drawing tips so hope this helps 🙂

THAT BOOK IS AMAZING, IT'S MAGICAL!