Blindfold Drawings

Today in class we drew with blindfolds on. The idea was to draw a place from childhood that meant a lot to us. The first thought going through my mind when I heard that we were going to have to do this was along the lines of, "Oh hell no, I can't do this. She won't even be able to tell what it's supposed to be." Once drawing began, the blindfold made me stop and visualize exactly what i wanted and where. I had to picture where everything was in order to begin. Yes it still ended askew when the blindfold came off, but in my personal opinion, stopping to think helped it not be totally unrecognizable. I tried to build from basics and figure out just the shape of the room in relation to the paper. After that, I started adding in the people and objects that gave the room the feeling I was hoping for. I think by the end I was going slower with the blindfold on so I could make sure what I was doing could be closer to what I saw in my head. However despite all these efforts, this was a bit of a far cry from what I saw in my head; faces were across the room from their heads and my favorite chair in the room can defy gravity in the image. Though for my eyes closed, I think I'll still give myself a pat on the back for being able to tell it was a chair when my eyes opened. The image is extremely different from my drawings of the past, as this is in cartoon unlike my charcoal sketches which go for a more realistic approach.