If the world was upside down

Have you ever thought about what if the world turned upside down? and weather we would be walking with our hands like a well-trained dog in the circus or we would be walking on roofs like in that  one trippy house in the Northwest, there are too many possibilities. but why speak about this you may be thinking, well during Mr. Mark's class we had to draw a portrait upside down without the use of a grid which was very mentally straining and a lot bit odd as the portrait itself did not make sense never the less my world turned upside down during that lesson. Things got restless when people started to turn their drawings upright to check their progress and it was utter chaos; with people having to start again or with people giving up, all the while trying to figure out who this portrait actually looked like.We had drawn the infamous Igor Stravinsky portrait by Pablo Picasso, and an artist by the name of Betty Edwards found when drawing this portrait upside down is a an interesing and confusing exercise.

The goal for this lesson was to see the way in which we interpret shape and lines and weather we change the look of a landscape and reference based on our own understanding or interpretation of a subject matter. We drew this portrait as accurately as possible disregarding our individual art style in order to capture the true essence of the shapes and lines in the original drawing. 

Overall a very interesting and fun exercise that really tested, improved and stretched our drawing capabilities.