Reddit reviews Drawing on the right side of the brain

This is a good idea, very good if you're trying to do recreate something with foreshortening.

However I've found another technique more useful that teaches you good drawing habits.

First have two pencils or whatever you are using to draw with.

Make sure you are an arm's length from your drawing surface and that your board is almost if not completely vertical. If it isn't you WILL get a weird skew.

Now use your non dominant hand holding one of the pencils. First choose the line you are going to draw from you're subject. Now bring the pencil along your eye line and tilt it to the start and end point of that line making the angle. Then use your finger to mark on the pencil where that line ends. Finally bring that pencil to your paper WITHOUT changing the angle or moving the finger keeping your arm straight and use your dominant hand to mark these two end points and angle.

You will find it much easier to fill in the space in between these two points. Obviously don't choose a huge gap. Remember a subject is merely a series of lines.

If you keep up this technique eventually you will find yourself doing it by eye. You will no longer need to measure, but it teaches you to pay attention to angles and where a line should end. This technique also stops you from thinking "this is a hand" and "this is a face" and teaches you to see lines, meaning you look at what you are drawing rather than the stereotyped idea of a face or fingers. Think of all those times you've drawn sausages instead of fingers or a face with huge eyes.

Read "Drawing with the right side of your brain" also.

I've heard good things about this book https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drawing-Right-Brain-Betty-Edwards/dp/0006381146

I have a copy but haven't got round to trying yet.