Daily Handicapped Doodles

[Adam Lina]

I thought it would be fun to start a thread for practicing non-dominant hand drawing. The only rule is you cant use your dominant hand so use your foot, mouth, armpit... anythings fair game and I mean A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G ;)

I'll be posting a doodle daily and encourage everyone to contribute as well. No pressure to create a masterpiece here. Just have fun and do something quick and painless.

For my first doodle I decided to set the bar with a masterfully crafted right foot drawing.

[Ursula Dorada]

Dominant, non dominant :p guess

[meat]

That was a fun, short break from The Damn Struggle. Thanks Haze!

[Jonesoda]

[Adam Lina]

Wonderful job everyone! Those are worthy of being hung on the refrigerator. For added fun todays post is a mystery doodle. First person to guess which part of my body I drew this with wins a cookie ಠ◡ಠ

[Madzia]

Do I have to join some group to participate? It's in PARTNER/GROUP DAILIES ... if not maybe move it to COMMUNITY CHALLENGES?

[Adam Lina]

Oh I guess you're right. How do I move the thread? Do I have to remake it?

[Madzia]

ask admin maybe to move it :)

[meat]

It's nice to do this kind of stuff when I"m stuck in... a bunch of places. Thanks Haze!

[Adam Lina]

No problem meat! I like these plant animals you're coming up with. Nothing fancy for today, just left handed sketching.

[meat]

Nice lizard and alien! I can't draw a single line that isn't fusilli with my non dominant hand. But wouldn't it be cool to be a bi-dexterous (is that a word?) artist?

[Madzia]

haha my right hand have wicked line design xD



do you also have this feeling? :D

[Adam Lina]

Thanks meat, I believe its called ambidextrous. About a month ago I spent a whole day just practicing left handed ellipsis and straight lines and saw huge improvements. Im guessing it would take maybe a month of doing that to become completely ambidextrous.

Nice job Madzia! I havnt experienced that. Maybe its a lefty thing? :)

[crackedskull]

Stiff right wrist motivates the left hand to draw.

[Adam Lina]

More left hand drawing

[crackedskull]

Alternating hands is actually better than I thought. Not only does my right hand get to rest, but when I start up drawing with right hand again I get this feeling of joy, because of the jump in linequality.

[Adam Lina]

Yea cracked, its a nice feeling. I like seeing my left hand slowly getting better too.

[Kaycee]

You guys draw better with your left hand that I draw with my right hand.

[meat]

While this is fun, I'm worried if I'm treating this like a quick fix instead of investing in long-term paintings?

[Adam Lina]

Meat, its good for getting your creativity flowing if anything. Try using it as warm up before tackling your long term painting.

I've been letting my right wrist recover so I spent today just practicing boring stuff with my left hand.