Non-Dominate a Portrait Sketch with Chantal Vincent

In this playful and refreshingly brief portrait lesson (25 mins), Chantal Vincent invites you to draw with your non-dominant hand, flipping your usual approach to unlock spontaneity, looseness, and expressive mark-making.

Using charcoal and a blending stump, Chantal sketches a dynamic figure in motion, embracing imperfection and shifting her focus away from precision toward proportion and gesture.

You’ll see how working with your “other” hand naturally reduces pressure and encourages creative freedom, while still practicing key fundamentals like eye placement, tonal variation, and relative alignment.

After the initial sketch, Chantal switches back to her dominant hand to refine and strengthen selected lines, demonstrating how both looseness and clarity can coexist in a single drawing. It’s a fast, freeing exercise with surprising rewards and a perfect reset if you’re feeling over-controlled in your usual work.

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