How to Draw the Right Side of the Brain
Your drawings show what you see and also show the inner you. Drawing is a skill anyone can learn; being able to draw well depends on how you see and perceive subjects you want to draw. Using the right side of your brain, you exercise a skill you may not have realized you have. It may be different than the way you normally perceive things, but drawing in this manner can be mastered with practice.
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Instructions
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Get Comfortable
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Sit comfortably at your table. Remove a sheet of paper from your sketch pad and tape the paper to the table to prevent slipping and to keep your lines accurate. Start first with using your own hand as the subject. Arrange your hand in a position you can maintain for an entire 30-minute drawing session.
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Don't move your hand or your head during the drawing session. Your view needs to be constant and not distorted at any time. Focus on any part of your subject hand and begin to move the pencil over the paper keeping your eyes on the hand you are drawing and not on the paper. Do not pick the pencil up off the paper. Concentrate on what you see. Right-brain drawing means looking at your subject the whole time.
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Do not think of the names of the parts of your hand, only draw the shapes in front of your eyes. Concentrate solely on the outlines, contour lines and interior lines of your hand. In a few moments, your right-brain mode will take over, and you will unconsciously begin to to draw with the right side of your brain.
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Be sure not to move your hand or your head during your drawing sessions. Take a single position and stay there. For right-brain drawing, you want to use only one view of your subject. Don't draw the exterior outlines then try to draw interior lines; keep your eye focused.
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Right-brain drawing is a wordless process, so you need absolute silence so you can work with visual information only. When your 30-minute session is done, review your drawing. You may see some misinterpretations of proportions and angles on your first try.
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Tips & Warnings
Right-brain drawing is a skill you can master over time. Practice the technique and compare your first drawings to more mature drawings and check your progress. In a short time, drawing in this way will become automatic.
Understand your first attempts will be difficult, so have patience with yourself.
Rushing the process will cause you to become frustrated. If you don't feel you can complete a 30-minute session, start with a smaller amount of time.
