the creative eye: a How-to-Draw Manual

The Creative Eye, drawing, vision and the brain – by Heather Spears is soon to be reissued ( Feb 2020) in black and white as a valuable manual to stand on bookshelves about Drawing and How to Draw everywhere.

Blog 6 – Round Drawings – an exercise from The Creative Eye

1. The day before The Danes have a new way of entertaining their employees at get-togethers. Today I am off to teach 40-45 people to draw the nude model in 1½ hours. They are staff at a discotheque and this is their annual Christmas party. It is to be a surprise – they have not…

Blog 5 On the Visual Field – about the peripheral exercises.

  The Physical response You’ve been learning about the visual field and making some drawings of the edges of the field –Peripheral drawings. This last blog about the visual field is about that happens physically when you draw in this way Some people end up feeling extremely tired, others experience a kind of wooziness, even…

The Visual Field 2: Continuing the exercise

This is the  3rd Blog  – drawing exercises found in my book The Creative Eye, and continues exercises about drawing the Visual Field. Awareness of the Visual Shield In the last exercise, you saw – and were aware of – the whole Visal Field. You found you were looking into a large amount of space…

Heather Spears blog – about drawing and the brain

The Creative Eye: drawing, vision and the brain is a book for everyone who loves drawing and loves to draw. Now I’ve decided to make a blog, mostly of the drawing (and seeing) exercises in the book and other books I am writing.. Click here to see the book: The exercises are designed so you…