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- AwwJeah, on 10/11/2007, -3/+130Picasso's secrets revealed.
- Backdrifts, on 10/11/2007, -4/+87Anyone else expect to see a pic of Charlie Brown wearing a blindfold?
- daedalus779, on 10/11/2007, -0/+75sadly their blindfolded results look better than anything I could draw NOT blindfolded :(
- Julolidine, on 10/11/2007, -0/+32My favorite is the cigarette coming out of Secret Agent X-9's ear.
- praveenmarkandu, on 10/11/2007, -0/+30for a second... Nicole Kidman came to mind.
- dn11, on 10/11/2007, -1/+31mussels are delicious
- sabach, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28Yeah this was just on digg 60 years ago.
- ByronT, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24I'd like to see mussels play a guitar.
- gamemaster357, on 10/11/2007, -3/+21what does this have to do with the iPhone?
- Wonderkind, on 10/11/2007, -1/+18Jacques Cousteau studied mussel memory to learn more about their migration habits.
- secretwhistle, on 10/11/2007, -0/+17Show us on the doll where they made you draw.
- badave, on 10/11/2007, -3/+16The captions are more intelligent than anything you see today. Modern day higher education is a fraud.
EDIT: I think that a majority of the above comments qualify as evidence of my statement. - pwsegal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14It would be interesting to see this repeated with todays cartoonists especially those who draw using a tablet and stylus.
- shellacked, on 10/11/2007, -5/+18John Bobbette finally reveals his Digg user ID!!!!
- moisie, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14Well this conclusively proves that people use their eyes to see.
Where's the version where they get people to draw with their other hand or some their feet? - gordonp, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I thought the characters themselves would be shown blindfolded.
- Toshibi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Like I stated above, when I ink, the lines are very stylized and are fairly well planned as far as thickness and stroke goes. As you can see in most of the pictures, it was more about where the lines were started and ended. I think this is neat.
- lisaawesome, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7It's art school all over again! Some profs really like doing that exercise. I think they just laugh at what we come up with.
- Toshibi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I'm an inker (yes, I know, I trace) but you have very definite strokes you use with pen or brush to produce lines....
As you can see, for the most part, it was a spatial problem and the lines are mostly the same. - hydroplane, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I was expecting a bunch of pervs in masks.
- LowROI, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Misleading title.
- tallulahvulture, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3This is great.
I draw with my eyes shut all the time.
Many drawing teachers use this experiment, of making the student shut their eyes and draw to warm them up. - feebie, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3I taught a class once on blind contour drawing. Nobody really could grasp the concept too well. The students kept saying "ugh mine is horrible, it doesn't even look like the actual thing I'm trying to draw!!". It was really hard to get into their heads that making it look right isn't the point.
I love this exercise because it changes the way you think so drastically. The point of any drawing isn't to make it look right, or make it realistic. The point of drawing is to experiment with the different ways you can manipulate a pencil on a piece of paper. When you think about it that way, you become to understand and appreciate texture, line volume, and composition a whole lot more.
Once you can hone that skill, and learn the different ways a pencil mark can look on paper, then you can begin to make your realistic drawings. You are learning your tools rather than wielding them.
Even so, there's something a lot more endearing in the abstraction of the blind contour drawing in my opinion. - db0255, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2and they still draw better than me.
- rollem, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2It is hilarious!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHzdsFiBbFc
- ScottMaximus1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I've seen a lot of Left-Eye dominant cartoonists in my time
- jessicass, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Yeah the spider video is actually pretty funny.
- Bahimiron, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Man. The guy doing the commentary is kind of an ass.
- cliffdogg, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I thought this was going to be some conspiracy theory about the Kubrick flick.
- Piggycow, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I cracked up after reading that caption
- deeboe, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1The pictue of Smilin Jack's is Bob Hope!!
- jessicass, on 10/11/2007, -3/+3You mother was a tracer!
- aduzik, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0What's really fascinating to me is that the artists got the parts of their characters correct -- the hair, the eyes, the mouth, the outline of the face -- but in the wrong spot. After drawing the same character thousands of times, I'll bet there's some sort of muscle memory that makes it possible for them to draw the parts without even thinking about it. Obviously they were able to do it without looking at what they were doing.
- soubriquetical, on 10/11/2007, -2/+2for some artists this exercise is fairly useful. it forces you to pay attention to the actual strokes you are making, you have to think intensely about every move your hand makes. it really can help you to clean up your lines and be more conscious of the various aspects of your work.
- berlynmerlyn, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0http://aroundtheusa.webpal.info/arcade-p6.html
- ziffel, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1...
- thekronz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2Oh tight, I was wondering what these characters looked like with Down Syndrome.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1so true.
- JuCee, on 10/11/2007, -16/+11Why is he being dugg down? That was retardly hilarious.
- jmontes, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1Literally LOL.
- WaterMedia, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1As a cartoonist (www.welcometopixelton.com) the truth is it would most likely look similar. I've always been obsessed with overcoming my native eye-biases, like shifting to a side, but truth be told it is impossible. This almost proves that all of these artists were left eye-dominant.
- Obligation, on 10/11/2007, -11/+4The link to the video with the stoned spiders making "freaked-out" webs sounds more interesting. I'd watch it, but I really hate spiders.
- InfamousX241, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2Cute.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -9/+0I LIKE 'EM DRAWINGZ
- mannaran, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1This post is boring and I feel sleepy zZZzZzZZzzzZ...
- oneoverzero, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3or the time i tried to draw while blindfolded.
- oMeSSiaHo, on 10/11/2007, -12/+1It's amazing what your mussels can "remember". I know plenty of songs on guitar but I could not tab them out for the life of me. I guess after drawing their characters so many times the artist's hands just sorta do it. Not being able to draw a straight line with a ruler this sorta impresses me.
- santaliqueur, on 10/11/2007, -14/+3Wait, the results are better...with the artist's eyes open?
PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS WITH SCIENCE! - tc2004txst, on 10/11/2007, -14/+0I could barely draw my own face blindfolded...much less my favorite cartoon character.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -16/+1Picasso is my pet monkey. Don't you reveal his secrets over here.
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