There is a very interesting learn-to-draw book, &quot;Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain&quot;, which takes a similar tack.  Its premise is the reason people find drawing realistic scenes hard is because your mind is busy categorizing what it sees in to nice big-picture abstractions like &quot;house&quot; or &quot;eye&quot;.  You need to re-focus you mind to be able to see what is in front of you (how the lines converge, how shading affects shape, etc.), and once you do that, it becomes easy to draw in a realistic style, and not have your drawings come out like they did when you were 8 years old.  Some of the exercises in the book are to copy line drawings that are turned upside down.  This is so that it is easier for your mind to ignore the high level concepts, and just be able to copy down the lines as they are.  I was certainly impressed and I wouldn&#x27;t have guessed that by reading just one book and working the exercises I could have learned to draw so well.  Highly recommended.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=drawing+on+the+right+side+of+the+brain" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;search?q=drawing+on+the+right+side+of...</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:news.ycombinator.com+&quot;drawing+on+the+right+side+of+the+brain&quot;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;?gws_rd=ssl#q=site:news.ycombinator.c...</a>