Mirror Drawing

Description

Spot mistakes in your drawing by viewing it from a new perspective. Your brain compensates for errors it has seen for too long — flipping the image breaks that familiarity and makes problems suddenly obvious.

Steps

1. Draw something — a face, a figure, an object — and set it aside for a moment
2. Hold the drawing up to a mirror, or photograph it and flip it horizontally in your phone
3. Study the flipped image: where do proportions look off? Where does symmetry break?
4. Note the top 2–3 issues you see
5. Return to the original orientation and correct only those issues
6. Flip again to check your corrections

Tips

• Fresh perspective reveals hidden issues — what looked fine before will suddenly look wrong
• Don't try to fix everything you see; pick the most important errors only
• Use this technique regularly throughout a drawing, not just at the end
• The flip also works in digital tools: use horizontal flip as a check every 20–30 minutes