Warm Up and Activate Your Right Brain

By sketching these three flat things you practice shading. The gradation of shading. The bottom is the darkest and then you just work out to the top, lighter and lighter. You can make as many layers as you wish; it doesn’t need to be only three.

Here you have a brick-shaped thing. Proportions or dimensions are irrelevant. The approximate shape is what counts. Simply shade this object as you wish. These pictures are only for your reference. You can even copy them exactly as they are if you can’t figure out how to draw your original, it doesn’t matter.

Now, by shading the circle you will create a sphere. Imagine the light is coming from the left side. A shade under the sphere is rather an uneven ellipse.

Yes, I know this should have been a cube, but I was lazy to erase and correct the lines…and I left it as it came out at first. Whatever shape comes out on your first trial is good. Do not correct it if possible. This is only a warm-up exercise.

Drawing Pyrolettes – Face Profile Vases are one of the best ways to relax and concentrate. I like to draw them because they really let you use the right half of the brain.

Sometimes it even gets you irritated that you are simply unable to draw the second half of the vase the same. Imagine drawing a human face-profile, left or right, any side is OK.

Then on the opposite side draw the mirror effect of the same profile. The more profiles you draw the better you get in it.

Then you simply line up as many faces – vase-profiles – as you like. I used to draw about 20 to 30 Pyrolettes on one A4 sheet of white blank paper.

I also admit that I don’t always want to do it because it makes my brain change the working mode from the left to the right side. It makes me feel uncomfortable.

But after only a few minutes you just do not feel like returning back to left side brain mode again. I can assure you, the right-side brain mode is very pleasant. Practice this exercise and reap the benefits.