Left Hand Doodles

My tutor once told me a story about an illustrator that he knows: She was working on a piece of work for someone and in the middle of the project she broke her wrist, or her fingers, or something - anyway, the point was that she wasn't able to use her dominant hand for anything.

To combat this she trained up her non dominant hand to perform as well as her dominant one.

Pretty amazing, right?

I've always wanted to be ambidextrous and since having eczema on my right hand often puts it out of commission, I thought I'd begin to train up my left hand.

Well, there's something left to be desired here, I think, but it's a good start and a lot more coherent than I anticipated.

The snail has the smoothest lines, don't you think?

Not sure whether this is wholly true, but practising normal activities with your non-dominant hand is supposed to help exercise your self control, as well as build up the necessary motor skills in the non-dominant hand. Watching me try to brush my teeth with my left hand is hilarious, trust me.

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Mort