Module #9 Hands

Otherhand

Using my hand as a model gave me a familiar subject but with a different perspective and appreciation of what I had been looking at all of these years. Drawing my hand on paper was less painful than I thought after employing some of the techniques that I have gleaned from my reading and film work, most importantly patience. I chose pencil as my medium for obvious reasons, it is erasable. Working with my dominant hand is a new enough adventure for me during this course and now I am being challenged to go even further now and use my off hand to draw its counterpart. This endeavor seemed to test boundaries for my hands relationship with one another revealing a pleasant surprise. Though it was an awkward feeling drawing with either hand I became comfortable over time using both hands. The outcomes using either hand were not that dissimilar and represented a noble effort on my part. My hands appear to have some symbiosis with each other that I had been subduing. This was a lesson to me to start allowing my off hand a little more freedom to show what it can do. In the future I will be less hesitant to us either hand while creating a work of art.

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  1. ArtifactjackApril 7, 2019 at 11:42 AM

    Using my hand as a model gave me a familiar subject but with a different perspective and appreciation of what I had been looking at all of these years. Drawing my hand on paper was less painful than I thought after employing some of the techniques that I have gleaned from my reading and film work, most importantly patience. I chose pencil as my medium for obvious reasons, it is erasable. Working with my dominant hand is a new enough adventure for me during this course and now I am being challenged to go even further now and use my off hand to draw its counterpart. This endeavor seemed to test boundaries for my hands relationship with one another revealing a pleasant surprise. Though it was an awkward feeling drawing with either hand I became comfortable over time using both hands. The outcomes using either hand were not that dissimilar and represented a noble effort on my part. My hands appear to have some symbiosis with each other that I had been subduing. This was a lesson to me to start allowing my off hand a little more freedom to show what it can do. In the future I will be less hesitant to us either hand while creating a work of art.

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