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ver at my hangout (Drawspace) one of the members started a thread about drawing with your weak hand. In my case I'm right handed therefore my weak hand is my left hand. I do not hold my pencil the same way I do when drawing or writing. When drawing I hold the pencil near the top and use the side of my hand and my small finger to stabilize my movements. Large free flowing movements are coming from the shoulder so there is no real difference between the right and the left. It's just a question of practice to feel comfortable. On the other hand, no pun intended, writing requires that I change the way I hold the pencil and the technique used to create the letters. If I were to write left handed it would look awful.

Sure when you're not doing this every day it is quite difficult but overall the technique is the same. I find that the hardest part is switching everything around. Like moving the light to my right and adjusting my body position to adapt to the left side as I draw.

I drew this example drawing to illustrate. The drawing I did with my right hand took around 15 minutes where as the drawing with my left hand took 45 minutes.

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