Dan Pink suggested that drawing helps open our eyes to relationships. He proposed that we draw a self-portrait of ourselves using only five lines.
My drawing consists of:
two eyes
a nose
a smile
a head
I decided to draw a nose instead of hair because I felt like a nose was a more distinctive feature than hair. I drew my eyes vertical because I wanted to express a sense of tallness in my picture. I am a tall guy, and it is hard to show that with just a face. By doing this exercise I am able to see how these simple lines form together to resemble my face.
My overall opinion of this is that while it was fun drawing yourself with only a few lines, I didn’t feel as if it helped me use my right side of my brain that much. It was creative because you had to improvise with only a few lines, but it only lasted a couple of minutes. It wasn’t an exercise that really pushed our creativity to the limits.
