1st Day  Students are always a bit nervous on the first day. They bashfully bring in their pre-instruction drawings which I collect. They won't see them again until the end of the last day, when much to their surprise, they realize completely how much progress they made. Sometimes they don't even recognize their own pre-instruction drawings.

We do a number of drawing exercises, for example upside down drawings and contour drawings, to help them make the shift from their left brain to their right brain. For some students it's a completely new experience and they may get sleepy or even get a headache. They end Day One with a drawing of their own hand. Even at the end of the first day they have made a lot of progress, although they may not realize it yet.

ワークショップの初日は受講生にとって、慣れないため不安な気がします。まず、受講前に自分で描いてきたドローイングを提出します。このドローイングは、最終日まで伏せておいて、最後にどのくらい進歩したのか見るのに使います。

「上下逆さまにして描く」方法や、「輪郭線を描く」方法などを使い、「右脳」状態へと切り替えます。受講生の中には初めての経験のため、眠くなったり、頭痛を訴える方もいます。最後に自分の手を描きます。気が付かないこともあるのですが、この日のワークショップの終わりには、かなりの進歩が見られるようになります。（輪郭線の認識）

2nd Day This day is devoted to drawing air, that is, the empty space around the objects, instead of the objects themselves. By drawing the empty spaces, which have no names, students are able to free themselves of the habit of drawing left brain symbols of objects. They begin to really see in a new way. Many times on their way home on the 2nd day, students miss their stop on the train because they have been so engrossed in looking at all the interesting negative space around them.

２日目は、”空間”を描く日です。なにか、あるものを描くのではなく、そのもののまわりの空間を描くのです。左脳の特長である、あるものを「記号化」するということから解放されます。この日の講習から帰宅途中、受講生は降りる駅を乗り過ごすということが起こることも珍しくありません。「ネガティブ・スペース」に興味を覚えるからです。（空間の認識）

3rd Day The 3rd day is devoted to proportion and the relationship of angles. Students learn simple one-point perspective and drawing a room corner. On this day they have to use both sides of their brain. Some people are quite happy to return to their left brain state, but others have become comfortable in the right brain state and find it a shock that they have to use the left side again.

３日目の課題は、角度と比率です。部屋のコーナーを描く、消失点が一つの、簡単なもので遠近を学びます。この日は、脳の左と右の両方を使います。左脳に戻って、ほっとする受講生もいますし、右脳になれたため、左脳にもどるのに戸惑う方もいます。

Here are some students totally concentrated on their drawings of a room corner on day 3 of the 5-day drawing course at the Olympic Center in Tokyo,. Several visitors dropped by to watch, including a man from Malaysia and another from Singapore.

３日目。部屋のコーナーを描くのに集中している光景です。この日は、マレーシアとシンガポールからの見学者がありました。

4th Day  On this day the students draw each other's profiles. When you draw another person you can't help but become friends because you see them in a new way. The students are surprised that many of the things they learned about drawing a room corner, also apply to drawing a face. Each day builds on the day before it.

この日は、他の受講生の顔を描きます。部屋のコーナーを描いたときに学んだことが役立ちます。

5th Day The last day is self-portrait day. Mirrors and lights are set up and each person spends about 4 or 5 hours drawing his or her own face. Some people just jump right in, but for others it can be quite an intimidating. experience. Sometimes a student will make great progress for the first four days and then get stage fright on the last day. Other times a student doesn't seem to make very much progress the first four days and then produces a veritable masterpiece on the last day. In any case, everyone is very happy to celebrate at the party afterwards and to admire everyone's work.

最終日に、自分の自画像を描きます。ライトと鏡を用意し、４−５時間かけて自画像を描きます。ワークショップの最後は、仕上げた作品を囲んでのパーティーです。