Drawing on the right side of the brain

I recently finished up a drawing class session with DC Sketchers. I enjoyed navigating the DC metro to different sites and drawing on location in areas like the National Botanical Gardens, Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Portrait Gallery, Mt Pleasant, Pleasant farmers markets, and African American Heritage Museum.

Our instructor pushed blind contour, a method that encourages letting go of individual safe and established drawing techniques by drawing without looking at your paper and following contours of observed objects. I struggled with the lessons earlier on but by the final class I began to achieve some success.  The 2 drawings in this post are a result.