Drawing On the Right Side of the Brain Excersize 1

As one of my birthday presents Fabri picked me up a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. I'm planning to follow the lessons in the book in an attempt to improve my skills as an illustrator and hopefully, animator as well.

The first excercises in the book are to be undertaken before reading ahead and learning the techniques that the author reccomends. The student is to do 3 drawings at their current level.

1)Self Portrait
2)Portrait from memory (I picked Fabri)
3)Drawing of left hand (or right hand for lefties)

I haven't drawn anything in a concentrated state for a long while. I think that the self portrait and the hand drawing were the most rewarding right now, but I don't think I did too bad on the image of fabri either, even if it doesn't look like him. I'm pretty sure the book leads you to draw these same subjects when the course is done another time so we'll see how I progress.

I'm also studying a bit of body language and acting from 2 other books. I tried an experiment at the post office today with the clerk, you know, smiling more and making more eye contact and I realised that those little things really do help.