A previous exercise in Natural History Art class - drawing something by drawing the spaces around the subject - the 'negative space', with the subject being 'ositive space'. Supposedly loosens up and allows the right side of the brain (more abstract, 'timeless', doesn't employ the use of symbols to convey ideas) to come into play, if you do it right. I had a bit of trouble seeing the spaces I drew as the actual shapes I was drawing - I was focusing on the skeleton too much, especially on the outermost lines - hard to not see the skeleton when you're drawing the outer lines, but that's just me. Seems other people has similar troubles, or at least they had trouble with keeping the resulting subject in proportion (which I had difficulty with myself). It did end up looking like what I was trying to draw, in the end, though - an owl skeleton. D ^w^ BEAUTIFUL thing! Another thing that was also out of reach in the Zoology lab. *chuckles* But aye. ^^

The silhouette turned out pretty neat, though. ^^ Yay.

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