When I read Draw on the right side of your brain, I thought that the habit of relying on visual alphabet, which I learned in my childhood, affected my poor rough sketch skills, and to escape from this habit, I learned to copy upside down, concentrate on one outline at a time, and focus on the ground space. In order to escape from this habit, lessons are being given on how to turn the sketch upside down, concentrate on one outline at a time, and pay attention to the space of the ground.
But when I think about it, I don’t want to draw “good pictures,” I just want to illustrate what I have in my brain, so if anything, I should practice the visual alphabet properly.
Wife: “You don’t need to practice the visual alphabet. Anyone can do it, even write a stick figure.” I said, “I can write stick figure and say it’s a person, but it’s hard to describe the movement. Wife: “That’s not a visual alphabet, that’s another skill.”
Related: how to draw a stick figure.
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