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Drawing from memory

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One of the first drawings I’ve done since mid way through high-school (yes, the last time I remember doing a drawing was about 12yrs ago).

This was shockingly bad. The idea of this exercise was to draw a person you know from memory. The point was to show how hard that actually is, because we don’t remember anything like the merest fraction of what we think we do. And it’s an exercise that proved exactly that. This looks nothing like the image I thought I could see in my head, and frankly I am ashamed to put this on the web - the only hope I have is that it’s so unrecognisable as to be unguessable, and thus not cause offence!

Anyway, the point of this is to see how well I can draw now, so I can compare with how well I draw after working my way through my new book “The new drawing on the right side of the brain”

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  1. Joel Bradbury posted 1 days, 12hrs, 3mins after the entry and said:

    who exactly is this meant to be?

  2. Matt Wilcox posted 1 days, 15hrs, 12mins after the entry and said:

    Apparently, a somewhat chubby coloured person with a wonky face and of unknown gender. What can I say, the hand was not drawing what my mind could see.

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