To draw better you’ll have to learn to awaken the right side of your brain.
The idea behind Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
But I already knew most of that so I skipped that chapter.
The book did have a very interesting table of characteristics of the left and right half of the brain. I don’t know if I can put it like this but going by this table it seems that I use the right side of my brain much more then most people.
After this little explanation the book goes on with several exercises that are meant to awaken the right side of your brain.
The first is rather strange.
I had to start out to draw the left face (if you’re right handed) of the face/vase drawing and then draw the right side.
It seemed to me that would be a very easy assignment and it was. It took me about 30 seconds. The only hard bit is after you’ve drawn the forehead, of the right face, you have to decide whether the line should go to the right or to the left.
At that point you switch the picture in your mind from faces to vases.
Although it isn’t very easy to draw the vase exactly symmetrical the overall shape isn’t that hard.
Faces and vases
The confusing part started when I read on. Apparently you’re supposed to take five or six minutes to do this drawing. Why on earth would you want to take that much time?
I feel like I’m back in school and I’ve just finished some exam well before my classmates. Did I miss something?
There’s a two page explanation about why this drawing is so difficult and different solutions people chose to solve it. But there is no mention of what you should do if you didn’t have a problem.
That leave one big question. Isn’t this drawing a problem for me because the brain of autistics is wired differently. Or is this just something that is different in me.
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