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Article #576Re: Visual comprehension and reading
From: CB
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:30
Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2007 13:30
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"Nicci" <n.m.keele@hotmail.co.uk> wrote in message news:1173524987.488392.309230@h3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > Do you remember that book that came out a few years ago 'drawing on > the right side of your brain'? the basic idea was to draw upside > down & the results I saw were very impressive. I'll just stick to the art stuff & leave the rest for others - but the idea wasn't to draw upside down, but to take a photo of some one, turn that upside down, and draw from that.. The reason it works is that the upside down photo is then usually perceived in a much more abstract way, and the drawer (I hesitate to use the word artist here) is simply studying the relationships between features in the photo, and not going through the more complex process of mediating external perception with internal representation. The results aren't all that impressive, but they usually do give hope to folks who believe that a) they can't draw a face, b) drawing is simply a matter of hand-eye coordination, and c) the way a face should look when drawn should be translatable back to photographic representation.. The end result (following her program) at best comes seems to be results like the profile used to decorate the front of the book - stiff, awkward, unnuanced, flat as a pancake.. And considering it's a profile - the simplest of all representations of the head, that's not saying much... Cheers; Chris
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