From the course: Creative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking
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Honor awkwardness: Engaging your brain
From the course: Creative Exercises to Spark Original Thinking
Honor awkwardness: Engaging your brain
- So I'm very right-handed. Some people are ambidextrous. But when I try and draw with my nondominant hand, the results are really awkward. I prompt myself to draw this way sometimes to energize my process. I do this especially when my learned skills for depicting start to feel repetitive, unoriginal, or flat. We've all experienced this in one way or another when what we put out there just doesn't feel fresh anymore. When I start to lose my edge, I have to ask myself, now what? I know instinctively that I need the gritty discomfort of drawing with my left hand to engage in a new way, moving past the stagnation of how I always do it. Sometimes I even up the ante by combining the use of my nondominant hand with a childhood tool, like a crayon. Without the control and formality of a classic drawing tool, my hand-eye coordination's thrown off. I say bring on awkwardness. When we do this, we're forced to grow our capacity…
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