[burn0ut]

I was wondering, Does anyone ever do that thing where you dont look at what your drawing, just at What your drawing, and not looking back at the paper, i was wondering if this Really helps, and what do you improve in ?

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[Eudoxus]

Drawing by just purely looking up doesn't help for me. You gotta look down sometime, to see how your going and stuff. But alternating between looking up and looking down is important. Making sure that what you're drawing is what you're seeing.

Hope this is some quasi-rational answer to your question!

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"Art is self-expression, a reflection of ones's soul communicated outward."

[burn0ut]

lol, well yea, i think youd have to look up and down if your drawing something your looking at, but i ment for practicing purposes :P

[Stolln]

Yeah, I draw contour lines of objects without looking sometimes. For me at least, it helps me really look at the form of objects. Many people, when painting, concentrate so much on getting the painting to look like the object they're drawing that they rarely look at the form lines of the object.

Doing the no-look-while-drawing-contours helps an artist really understand the object he/she's drawing; take it apart piece by piece and concentrate on form, not on drawing.

I dunno if that made any sense at all; that's how it is for me.