Drawing emotions - part 1.
The first two steps using only dots and lines for the faces.
Although I draw every day, I thought it would be a good idea to get into the habit of doing some daily practice focusing on one particular area.
For this first one I chose to work on emotions, because I wanted to expand the range of emotions that I can draw from memory.
I set a timer and grabbed my pad, as I thought it would be fun to do it old school as opposed to on the iPad Pro.
I’ve listed the steps in case the pics are a bit difficult to read.
First I drew eight different emotions using a reference pic. The emotions were: joy, anger, trust, anticipation, sadness, fear, distrust, and surprise. I stripped the drawings down to the bare basics of dots and lines.
Next I looked them for a minute, and then covered them up and tried to draw them from memory using only the list of emotions.
After that, I drew them again, this time not even looking at the list.
I now drew them for a third time adding a little more detail to the faces, rather than just dots and lines.
Finally, I drew them once more added more detail still.
The next three steps, adding more detail.
I’ll review them again later and see how many I can recall.
Note: It might have been better to choose less than eight, as between three and seven is the optimal number for working memory.
To be continued!
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