blind control

one of my all time favorite art exercises/techniques is blind contour drawing. you draw a subject without looking down at your paper or picking up your pen the entire time. i drew one of my best friends, sophie, using blind contour. she came out kind of picas looking, but whatever because this technique is all about paying attention and enjoying the small details. its about giving up control over your art and over your judgement of yourself, how can you judge your creation if you didn't even look at your paper the whole time?? its guaranteed to come out abstract and you never know what its going to look like in the end. 


i never really realized how deep the meaning of this exercise goes, giving up control of your art. to an artist, art=life. thus giving up your control is in a way giving up a part of your life and just rolling with the ounces and just accepting the way your drawing turned out. 


isn't that just how life is?? how hard it is to realize that we basically don't control anything!! we just have to do our best and what ever comes out of our work is what we have to accept how its turned out. and no matter how life turns out, or our drawings, they really do turn out quite beautiful.


sophie: