Hey you lot, hope you’re all good.
So today’s video is gonna be in real-time, since it should be quite a quick one.
Basically I’m gonna do a blind-contour drawing or you know a drawing without looking at the
paper while I draw.
So yeah I’m just gonna get started.
I have a couple of pictures up on my laptop screen over here that I’m gonna try and
draw and I’m not gonna take my eyes off the screen so my heads facing this way and
you’re just gonna have to trust me when I say I’m not looking.
Apologies if my voice-over is a bit all over the place but it's hard enough drawing and
talking at the same time let alone not looking at what you’re drawing and talking at the
same time.
I realise this might not be everyones cup of tea, obviously people wanna see really
polished content and like amazing finished pieces but, this is just a little thing that
I love doing when I hit a bit of a roadblock in a sketchbook.
I think we’re all used to that feeling of not wanting to ruin a sketchbook and that
can kind of keep you away from taking any risks, you want it to all come together as
this cohesive piece of art in itself that almost reads like a book, page after page
of great drawings that all work together and make sense.
But (A) there’s no fun in that and (B) that ends up, for me at least, just creating too
much pressure so you almost talk yourself out of drawing anything at all in case you
ruin the sketchbook.
And I talked about that in one of my earlier videos, how I have a specific ‘no-pressure
sketchbook’ where I’m not allowed to judge myself and I’m totally free to make mistakes
and mess about.
And this is one of the ways I do that.
I also think its a great way to end up with a piece of art that’s completely different
to anything you’ve created or anything you will ever create again.
I mean I know there are some people that are actually really good at this, but for me…
I just find it fun to look down at the page and actually have a bit of a giggle like wow
did I really do that.
And in the best of cases, I might even have drawn something that, even though it doesn’t
make any sense, it sparks an idea or something like that.
Can’t say I’ll be getting any ideas from this lot but hey it’s been fun, if you haven’t
tried this before, I’d really recommend it.
It’s just a casual, easy-going little practice, great for a drawing warm-up, it’s actually
I think good for improving like hand-eye… nah it can’t be hand-eye coordination cos
you’re not looking at the page are you, but its supposed to be good at improving something
over time, maybe like spacial perception or something.
Anyway my loves, I hope you enjoyed today’s video, short and sweet, I’ll see you’s
tomorrow.
Bye!