I keep trying to level up my drawing (weird and misshapen and also agonizingly slow), and so I’m starting again on this book. The transformations the author claims from their week-long workshops seem unreal and impossible-to-believe to me.
I remember attempting a portion of this book in high school, but I also remember quitting before getting half-way through. (And my “pre-training” drawings this time look distinctly untrained) At this point I think I’m putting off the next exercise because it just seems so big and long, and I have trouble focusing on drawing for a whole hour at a time.
UPDATE: finally sat down and did the upside-down copy of Picasso’s portrait of Igor Stravinsky and the end result did indeed surprise me, although somehow in my version the chin is just gone and as I was doing it I had several moments of “wait these lines from over here are supposed to meet up with these lines from over there and they’re nowhere near each other—why did I follow the instructions and not do the outline first?”. But the end result looks much more like the original than I could have hoped.
Next the book is talking about what I drew as a kid, and I absolutely hated drawing and coloring as a kid so that’s going to be fun. (I would get classwork sent home from first grade to finish at home where what I’d been unable to finish in class was color in regions of a picture. Do the little math problems to find out what color to use in each region? Done instantly. Color? Noooo…)