Aaron Hertzmann @aaronhertzmann.com · Mar 25 What happens if you restrict eye movements? Here’s a 30-second "blind drawing" I made, without looking once at the drawing. I took the photo a moment later. The “errors” are typical of blind drawing: individual shapes are accurate, but their proportions and placements are not. 10/
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Beginners tend not to look at the source much. And so they can’t get many details simply because they never see them. One study found that requiring novices to look at the subject more frequently improved their copying accuracy. Learning to draw is partly about learning to look more. 11/