Symbol Drawing

>>2745609
The Picasso exercise is just a start, so you can understand what observational drawing feels like.
Just because you've done that one exercise doesn't necessarily mean you're "cured". If you want to know for sure post portraits, since that's where symbol drawing is most prevalent.

Books like right side of the brain and keys to drawing are good starting points for drawing what you see, but like anything in art that's something you can always improve on. "Symbol drawing" is like the bottom end of the spectrum, where you're not observing at all. I guess photo-realism would represent the other end of the spectrum.

>>2745655
Okay but if I'm not drawing anything except the lines that I see would it be safe to say I should continue from that point?

>>2745672
If you're unsure whether you're cured of symbol drawing, you probably aren't.
Lines should be mostly constructional, because there is no black wireframe around real life objects.

Keys to drawing helped me a lot with the theory, from there it's life drawing you should focus on. Life drawing can't substitute construction, gesture and all that jazz (you'll still need to study that), but it forces you to solve the problems of foreshortening, light and shadow, physics etc. that are already solved for you when you're drawing from a photo.

All the skills are linked to one another, as your construction and imagination drawing improves, so does your life drawing and vice versa.
Remember:
>your pencil is a tool to darken parts of the paper, so use it to draw shadows instead of outlining everything.
>trust what you see, forget what your brain tells you something should look like
>squint a lot