This next exercise is about relaxing into the right brain mode. It's about allowing the drawing to simply flow onto the page without any control or rigidity. So I have chosen this beautiful feather image that has a lot of lines of curves and free flowing forms. It also has some beautiful contrast through the center and it has some opportunities for some shading and creating texture. This particular drawing is not to be timed. I would love you to spend half an hour at least on the drawing but please do not set a timer for this drawing.

Just let the time flow and allow as much time as you want or need to create this beautiful feather picture. So right now I'm picking out some of the details of the feather and just giving myself I have a basic guide as to where these feathers end. And then I'm going to come back and create a lot more detail later. So I'm looking at my image now, roughly, and I'm saying I want to go up here and I want to go over here. And I'm going to allow my image to go up there with the feathers trailing over. Once I've got a basic idea as to where the main line of the feather is, and my hand is making a perfect curve there.

Once I create some basic feathers, I can go back and I can just relax and create lots and lots of feather lines. And the reason I chose this image is because again, it doesn't matter where they go, I've got a basic idea as to where all of the things The strands seat on the drawing. And now I can just do whatever I wanted to, and it will still look beautiful and perfectly imperfect, just like nature. Another thing technique that I'm using to create the look of a feather is rather than doing one hash line on the page, I'm feathering my lines and I'm dashing in a way I'm dashing on the page to get that beautiful feathery look. And I create a few and then I go back, and I can create more texture, and more texture as I go. One thing you may be tempted to do is start to rush, you may feel like oh, this is taking too long, and I'm just gonna, you know, hurry up and do it quickly and you're going to lose that beautiful light further Enos of the image plus you're also going to slip yourself into left brain mode, which works a lot faster and a lot quicker.

So if you find that you're starting to get a little frustrated, and you're wanting to do it quicker, then when you first started, I want you to just take a deep breath and slow down again, and surrender to the process. And when we feel like we're rushing, it's a good idea to refer back to the image and just to keep looking at the image and following the lines of the feather that in the image instead of just trying to create a bunch of dashes to get the drawing finished. That's not what this is about. This is really just about taking your time and absorbing yourself in the feather shape. Perhaps if you find this drawing frustrating, it is an indication that you are more of a left brained hora and that's perfectly fine. Now that I have most of my further kind of blocked in, I am going to go back and I'm going to add a lot more depth and darkness to the roots because of that dark area that is in the feather.

Now, I have been a little bit lazy because I've really been relaxing into the process today and so I have allowed my hand to smudge a fair bit of the base of the page. And that's okay because I'm going to balance that out by simply smudging the rest of it. So here I go. Okay. Create a bit of a smudge effect over the entire page using the palm of my hand and you can see that the edge of the power of my hand is quite dirty. I'm using a HB pencil, which is a much lighter pencil than what I normally use, simply because I felt that it was indicative of the further form and so the smudging hasn't been too bad.

The way to avoid smudging is to really hold your hand up off the page or to get a separate piece of paper onto showing here and to have a piece of paper there that you're using while you're drawing. However, as I like to work with my mistakes, I'm just going to smudge into the page and then that's all fixed and I'm going to create more darkness at the roots here by doing some nice messy shading. Still, keep That further text Jeff. And I can really just take as long as I want during all of this now because it really is a beautiful part of the process. What I am still doing is I am still looking at my image and I'm looking at some of the details that are there so that I can stay true to it. Now there's some definite dark areas up here and there's also a beautiful gap there that I want to try and maintain to give the randomness of the further the detail.

So I'm going to keep to that and I'm going to make sure the center part is nice. And also, the image itself does trail off at the bottom there. Over here. It cuts off a little bit there. So I'm just using my own creative freedom to take off a little bit, and that's fine. There we go putting on the finishing touches, just fixing a couple of areas there that I want to keep the same as the average.

Image and it's okay to use an eraser a little bit, although I encourage you not to use one too much. But just for some little things at the end, I just clean up some of my smudges around the outside there. Once I stopped doing that, and then ruin it. So I'm gonna go back and smudge all around. Give it some nice shading on the page. There we go.

After completing this drawing, I feel so relaxed. I feel really free and really happy with what I've created. I feel like I could spend another hour doing this drawing. And I feel really beautiful. So remember to take your time and think holistically while still allowing your To get lost in the detail and lose track of time, remember to build your confidence along the way and have confidence in our creations. We can set our intentions and relax into the process.

And when you're finished, I want you to congratulate yourself on a job well done. Look at all of the parts that you have done well, and remember to take some time to self reflect at the end. And I'll see you in the next lesson when we talk about using our eyes in a new way.