Drawing On The Right Of Brain Blind Contour Drawing Exercise (Crunched Paper)

So in this video I'm going to show you a very simple drawing exercise and it's from the exercises in the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. They're different exercises to show you ways to unleash your creativity and switch from using the left side of your brain to using the right side of your brain. So for this exercise you're going to take a piece of just regular paper and crunch it up into a little ball. You're going to use a 2B pencil or any soft pencil is good and you have your crunched up piece of paper and the idea is you don't even look at your hand that's drawing. You hold your pencil in a way that's comfortable for you and this kind of drawing is called contour drawing and basically your eye is going to follow all the lines in the crunched up paper but you're not trying to identify any forms or shapes and so the idea is that your left brain which is the side of the brain that creates labels and makes words and very logical signs. You want to shut that side of the brain off and you want to ignite the right side of brain which is the more creative side. So this is one of the many exercises in the book and I will just give a slight demonstration of how it's done. You have your paper there. You start anywhere on your page and without looking at your hand you're just going to follow the lines. So as you can see the finished product doesn't look like much but the idea is that it becomes a very meditative process and it's all about the process rather than the finished product. So thanks so much for watching the video. Give it a big thumbs up if you like it. Be sure to subscribe to my channel for lots more DIY videos and if you'd like to see more drawing videos just let me know and if you create some drawings hashtag or find me at heatherboydwire so i can see them.