This is a continuation of a series of posts about learning to draw using Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain concept. The last update was the simple profile post.

Last night I spent less than an hour drawing Bill. I still have more work to do on darkness and lightness. Given this is my first live profile I’m happy with it. I’m hoping to draw my family after the class is complete.

I’ll post the final version when its ready in a week or two.

This is a continuation of a prior Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain posts (Learning to Draw). See update 6 for my perspective drawing example.

So in the last class we practiced drawing a profile after learning some fascinating information about proportions and location of eyes, ears and more. Pretty cool stuff. Very Left-Brain information necessary to get the Right-Brain working artistically.

We practiced drawing a freehand copy of a profile called Madame X by John Singer Sargent .

Below is the image we used to freehand copy and then my copy. Still needs lots of work and you can see I moved a lot of lines around (the chin area especially) to try to get the proportion worked out.

The original Madame X by John Singer Sargent

And my Version

Tonight we are going to do live profiles of each other. Now that should be interesting.

This post continues the prior posts about Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - See update 5.

In update 5 I showed my first perspective that was done to learn some of the techniques. This example is our official perspective. I did this over 2 classes and a little at home. I probably have about 4 hours into this one.

It’s a corner in the speech center at the University of Richmond. Pretty complicated with lots of doors, hallways and trim work. I’m pretty pleased with this one with the exception I don’t have door knobs on the doors and there are some places where the proportion and angles could be a lot better. But all told, not bad for my first complex perspective.

I’m pretty excited about the process of learing to draw. I’m really looking forward to the process of the self portrait. If that comes out looking good, I’m going to draw my daughters after the class is finished.

Up next, we are going to learn to draw profiles.

This is a continuation of prior posts about my experiences with learning to Draw using the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Technique. See Previous posts

Learning to Draw at Age 54 - Update 4 - Exercises at Home

Learning to Draw at Age 54 - Update 3 - Right Brain Exercises

Learning to Draw at Age 54 - Update 2 - Preinstruction Drawings

Learning to Draw at Age 54 - Update 1 - The Hand

Learning to Draw at age 54

By the way I’m going to leave the title Learning to Draw at Age 54 but I just turned 55 on 10/12/08. Happy Birthday to me! LOL.

This drawing was just a quick practice of perspective techniques. I tool engineering drawing back in High School and college so this was an easy technique to grasp. In the next class we are going to spend 3 hours doing a more detailed perspective drawing. When I get a chance I will post that drawing as well.

Perspective Of Open Door drawn on October, 20, 2008

After drawing my hand in the third class, I came home and practiced on some items in my home that week. I spent about 45 minutes on the apple and about an hour on the Crepe Myrtle. I love both, at least given where I started in September. However, I hate the shadow in the Crepe Myrtle drawing! It looks like rabbit ears!

Apple on wooden table drawn on October 1, 2008

Crepe Myrtle in Vase drawn on October 5, 2008