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3:17 AM, Thursday February 13th 2020

What I see is the same I saw in myself a month ago (I was a bit worst actually). This is my progress in one month:

https://imgur.com/a/K17efqd

If you like what you see then read on.

The first thing I wanted to address with my practice was my inability to see. I have working eyes (though I'm nearsighted) but that's not really the problem. The problem is in my brain, it just did not have the ability to see the forms of the figures. So the brain just does it best job to fill in the missing info by guessing (poorly).

The way I addressed that problem is by making all my drawings "blind". That is I kept my eyes fixed on the photo reference and never looked at the paper I was drawing on. Doing this forces me to rely entirely my ability to see information on the photo reference. I also was spending nearly all my time staring at human figures. And not only staring but actually observing every little turn and bend and every contour and, eventually, every form.

After 1000 figure drawings or so I then started doing half of them blind and half of them allowing myself to look at the page. I still forced myself to draw mostly while looking at the reference, but looking down occasionally can help with alignment of the parts.

I still have a long way to go in my figure drawing though. This is only the beginning.

6:06 PM, Thursday February 13th 2020

Thank you for reading, replying and the advices replied! I'll try some of this blind contour drawing thing

10:58 PM, Thursday February 13th 2020

Interesting, how much time did you give yourself for each blind contour drawing? Did you give yourself 1 min or 2 min or did you just stop once you felt like you had completed the drawing?

I feel like I am struggling with the same issue so I am eager to try this method.

3:36 AM, Friday February 14th 2020

I try to keep it short, usually 2~3 minutes but I don't really time myself. I just try doing 50 a day.

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