In this set of exercises, I had to just “draw what I see”.
To do this, Ms Betty made us copy drawing two pictures from the book while looking at them upside down. This way, we do not know what we are drawing and are forced to look carefully at the original picture. This method tricks the dominant right brain to give up as it cannot make sense of the picture, and allows the left brain to take over the task that Mr Right abandoned.
Here are the results.
I was very surprised that they look like the originals. And I was copying them upside down – and did not even know what I was copying.
That gave me courage that possibly I can learn to see better, and also draw.