I have drawn the same three hands every morning for eleven days and I want to report that they are getting worse.
Not worse-looking. Worse in the sense that I can now see what is wrong with them, which is a different and much more annoying problem than not being able to. On day one I drew a hand and thought, a hand. On day eleven I draw a hand and think, the…
Drew with my left hand for a week on a friend’s suggestion and it was the most useful thing I have done all year.
Everything came out terrible, obviously. But terrible in a specific way: the lines were slow and uncertain and they went exactly where I was looking, because I had no muscle memory to fall back on. With my right hand I do not really look. I have…
Rules for the current sketchbook, written on the inside cover so I cannot pretend I did not agree to them.
No tearing pages out
No skipping a page because the last one went badly
Date everything
If you hate it, finish it anyway and then turn…
