/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

I did my second and hopefully last upside-down drawing, following the exercise in Drawing On The Right Side of the Brain. Spent about 2 and a half hours on this over 2 sessions, the second of which I took about an hour's break in the middle in bed. It's fine at the start but becomes really tedious, especially when you start realising bits aren't aligning and you're going to have to make adjustments off-original to compensate. I think I somehow did a great job on adjusting the horse's head on the bits I fucked the alignment on, but it becomes too much on the rider. This is an area that ''symbol drawing' actually helps a bit in, since you can adjust to draw the _man_ more easily than you can adjust to draw arbitrary lines, since you know which lines are important to align once things become misaligned (for instance, the lance is fucked, but I was originally drawing the top at a different angle to the bottom in order to get it closer to the head, and then re-did it to align more closely with the bottom part of the lance).

I think basically my main issue is when you realise different sections aren't spaced out correctly and it kills a lot of motivation from then on. I think the whole exercise isn't dissimilar to jigsaw puzzles, which I find incredibly dull. I get satisfaction from drawing something and seeing it come together and working creatively on it moreso than copying lines by rote.

I'm guessing it's not a hugely beneficial exercise outside of learning to avoid symbol drawing?