Tag Archives: concentration
Sketch Book Series: Intense Concentration (2020)
Sketch Book Series: Blind Drawing – Trying to Concentrate (2019)
Can’t Pay Attention
Sometimes I have trouble focusing on the book I am reading. The image below is my solution for the problem of picturing lack of concentration. The portrait is more or less conventional. I’m not sure I got the eye rolling quite right, but they certainly are not focused on the book. I wonder if there […]
Editing a Difficult Passage
Trembling with Concentration
Blind Drawing and Lapse in Concentration
In a blind drawing, one’s gaze follows the contour as the hand holding the pen attempts to limn those curves on paper. One must concentrate. The drawing below shows what happens when concentration fails. I drew the face of the left-most figure twice.
Lapse in Concentration
Studying in pairs has its advantages, but only if concentration doesn’t become a problem.
Concentration
All seemed to be in their own world.
Pain and Concentration
My pain started again. This time it started gradually on my lower left side. I tried lying back and visualizing it. It seemed to be a yellow glow. I thought if I acknowledged its presence with my mind and breathed in and out calmly, it would abate. “Breathe in. Think of all the energy coming […]
