Right Drawing: Find the Lines

When we draw from imagination, the mind hands us symbols: an oval for a head, a stick for an arm. Right Drawing helps you get past them — not by drawing perfectly, but by looking. FIND: start from a blur Each drawing begins with a softly blurred figure or face in a new pose and view. There are no edges to trace and no features to name — only gesture, masses and proportion. The lines have to be found. Sketch loose, translucent rough lines and let them overlap. Then switch to the line pen and draw only the lines you now see in your own marks. Hide the rough to see just the lines you chose. DOTS: plot the line before you draw it A blank page and two pens. Tap to place small dots where a line will go, as many as you need, then draw the line through them. Placing the line point by point keeps a habitual symbol from jumping in. Made for a finger on a phone • All the tools side by side: rough or dots, the line, and an eraser • The eraser rubs out part of a line and leaves your rough and dots alone • A magnifier shows the spot under your finger • Pinch to zoom in for detail; lines drawn zoomed in stay fine • Every stroke is saved; pick up any drawing later • Share a drawing as an image Quiet by design No accounts, no ads, no feeds, no scores. Nothing leaves your device. Open it when you would otherwise scroll, and spend a few minutes seeing. Drawing what you see, not what you know — practiced a few minutes at a time.