We're ready now to start building a relationship with our hand. I find this is one of the key elements that helps me to be a really good drawer up and a really good artist. It's something that you will take time to develop, and something that will come with a lot of practice. building a relationship with our hand is about allowing our hand and our mind to work together as a team. We are so often cut off from our physical bodies and unaware of our mind and body connection and rediscovering this through drawing is not only possible, that empowering and inspiring as well. It doesn't matter how you hold your hand or what angle the paper is on, although I do find rotating the page to be quite handy.
What matters is that your hand is doing what your mind wants it to do. There are many techniques that you can learn that will help you to become a better artist. However, consciously developing a relationship with your brain And your hand will help you to give yourself this anatomic programming, it will help your hand to do what you're telling it to do. As you're going through the process of drawing. I often find that if I haven't picked up a pencil or a pen for a long time, and I have had a holiday or I haven't been drawing for a while, I need to spend a little bit of time reconnecting with my hand and being able to draw again, if I have a series of six or seven drawings to do, I often find that the last few drawings that I do is a lot easier and a better quality than the first few drawings that I had done.
And that's because my hands and my brain have a better relationship as I'm moving through the day or moving through that set of drawings. The other thing that we're going to be doing in this exercise is learning how our hand likes to behave. Some of you might find that touring, geometric shapes, straight lines, squares, triangles, that kind of thing is a lot easier for you. I find drawing Herbes to be a lot easier for me learn to follow the natural curve of your hand, rotate the page, if you need to be able to use your hand the right way and the direction that it wants to flow in rather than trying to go against the grain of what your hand wants to do or against the direction that your hand wants to flow. And that way you will be exploring how your hand functions and what comes out at the end result.
During these infinity symbols, it's really about exploring how my hand creates a curve. How does it like to travel around the page? Do I want to rotate my page when I'm drawing, because my hand will make a fuller curve if it's working in one particular direction? How does my hand like to interact with the page when doing a curve. And I like to do them all different sizes going in different directions. Not really worried about where they're going on the page, because this is purely an exercise.
Playing with this idea of just continually making that patent as well. And now that I've given my hand that practice, trying again, in a different area, and seeing how much easier it is now, from when I first started trying to go back the other way, forcing my hand to go in a different direction. That's quite difficult for me to curve that way. Instead And even though I only want to spend about five or six minutes on this exercise, my hand just wants to keep going. It's quite fun when you start getting into it and just really allowing your hand to go for it not worrying about whether it's going to be correct or not be very relaxing.