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If you sometimes get dissatisfied with your personal style of drawing, there are a few ways to shake yourself out of it. Surprise yourself with your drawing and you might just find your enthusiasm again.

One artist I met while I was a life model became so entirely adept at drawing the human frame after years of study of skeletal and muscular structure, and many hundreds of hours of life classes, that he devised a very interesting method of tricking himself. He was one of the first people I knew to use a graphics tablet and a laptop in class, and what he’d do was to simply turn the graphics tablet around so that when his pen went left, his line on the screen went right. This ensured he had to give every mark his full concentration, but presumably it also brought back that nice element of chance which the best images sport.

You don’t have to use a graphics tablet to follow the same principle though (do try it if you have one to hand). There are a couple of simple things you can do that will have the same effect. Try drawing upside down on your paper, for example, or draw with the other hand than your dominant one. For even more fun, draw while looking at your paper in a mirror. And enjoy what you come up with.

(I did - I drew that bee upside down).