I think my pre-test drawings are okay. I think my best pre-test was the drawing of my hand. I was really focused on drawing what I was looking at although it didn't turn out exactly the same as my hand. My fingers looked a little bit thinner and longer than what they really are. What I thought I did the best was my thumb because the shape, length, and width are pretty much the same in relation to my thumb.
On drawing my portrait, what shows I was really looking is my nose and the whole shape of my face. The rest was kind of hard to draw because I was moving a lot. I think I wasn't in R-mode because I just wanted to make it look like me which in the end it didn't. I wasn't looking at it as just shapes and lines and maybe that's why it didn't look like me.
When I was doing the vase/face drawing, I was really focused on drawing the whole line. After I drew it, I noticed that most of it didn't look like the original line. I went back and erased the parts that didn't look the same and got it to look better. While I was fixing it, I could feel that I was in the R-mode. The line I drew was slightly above the original line but it still looked very similar. I didn't want to go back and re-draw it because it was just a practice and because it would take more time.
The upside-down drawings really helped me get in R-mode. I was really focused on drawing the shapes and lines that I was looking at without thinking about what they really were. When I started drawing the Pablo Picasso portrait, I didn't even think about what I was drawing until the end when I asked myself what the top part was (the legs). What I finished of my drawings look very similar to the original ones although some of the proportions are wrong but I'm still happy with what I did.