Art Activity #2: Drawing Blind

Apr 13

In this activity you will be drawing with your eyes shut! This may seem silly, but it is a great practice for your both your mind and your wrist. This is an activity that is fun to do on your own, or with someone else in the form of a game. Here is what you will need:

paper
pen, pencil, or marker
a hard surface to draw on

Since this is a very different way of drawing, it is easiest to start with something you are comfortable drawing. Think of the thing you normally doodle when you have time to yourself. My go-to’s are trees and cats! If you aren’t sure what to draw, here are some ideas: a chair, a dog, a fruit or vegetable, a boat, a building, your house, yourself, a cup, a flag, a bug…whatever you like!

Now to begin:

Find a good place to sit and draw. It can be at a table, outside, on your bed, on the floor, wherever feels comfortable. Make sure you have a hard surface to draw on like a book, clip board, or table.
Take a deep breath and draw circles in the air with your fingers to warm up your wrists.
Pick up your pencil, pen, or marker and hold it over the centre of your paper.
Close your eyes. If that is too tricky for you, you can wear an eye mask or tie a bandana around your face.
Picture your object in your mind. What sorts of shapes does it have? (as an example, tree is basically a circle on top of a vertical rectangle)
Try your best to draw the shapes that you see in your mind, and then start adding the details. Don’t open your eyes until you have drawn it all.
When you think you have finished your drawing, open your eyes and see what you drew! Does it look strange, silly, or weird? What parts are easy to see? What is harder to see? How big is your drawing? Are the lines all connected?

*Miss Marks closed her eyes and drew a birdhouse! Can you see the bird? What about the egg in the nest? It looks pretty silly all together!*

To make this activity a game you can play with someone else, you can close your eyes and draw something without them knowing what it is. They can guess what you are drawing while you are drawing it. Can they figure out what you are drawing? How quickly can they guess correctly?

Feel free to share your completed drawing with your class through Microsoft Teams. If you’d like to share it with me, I would love to see it and post it on this site if you would like to share your work with others!