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I realized that I had forgotten to draw the front view of the ear.
Since it would be a waste of paper to only draw one ear and then move on to drawing the whole face. I thought it would be nice to search the web for a photo of eyes and a nose. So I could do one last drawing of the parts of the face before moving on to the complete face.

But I ran into a problem drawing the right eye.

When I draw eyes I draw a curving line from the outside of the face to the inside. And use two dots to guide myself.
With the left eye (right for the on looker) that means drawing a line away from my hand. So I can see the dot I have to aim at to get the right shape.
But with the right eye (left for the on looker) I draw in the direction of my hand. Which means my hand is covering the dot. So I can’t see what I’m doing.

Of course this isn’t the first time I’ve run into this problem. It’s just that I always thought that I would solve it before it would become a nuisance. Clearly I didn’t.

A well. I can’t think of a solution right now, but I’m sure that I’ll find one if I put my mind to it.

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Drawing a hand in a difficult angle.

The assignment was to balance a piece of clear plastic on top of your left hand and draw your left hand on the plastic while looking through the plastic. That is an easy way to draw what would have one of the most difficult drawings.
But I didn’t have a piece of clear plastic and I didn’t want to go through the rain to get one. So I thought I’ll first try to draw my left hand free hand. If that didn’t work I could buy the piece of plastic tomorrow and try again.

I must say that I like the result. If you had asked me a few weeks ago I don’t think that I ever would have been able to draw my hand. Especially under this strange angle.
The trick is to close one eye. That way you get very clear edges which makes it a lot easier.

Left hand

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Eye problems

Free hand (Drawing: Left hand)