Owing to the generosity of Jack Shedd, I bought my own copy of this:
“The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” (Betty Edwards)
which means the procrastination that allows me to avoid doing the exercises in the library copies no longer works. It’s not going anywhere. So I assembled the materials it calls for last weekend and worked through the pre-education exercise:
- a self-portrait
- a drawing from memory
- a drawing of whichever hand you don’t use to draw with.
Came out better than I expected (and no, I’m not sharing them — yet).