Since the last blog post, we have had two readings. The first one was a reading/drawing activity, which showed the difference between drawing on the right and left sides of the brain. It made us transition from using the logical side of the brain to using the artistic side of the brain and made us notice the shift. It was interesting but very difficult to complete the activities. I had already done the vases and faces and drawing upside down activities, but it didn’t make it any easier to do them again. I thought that the most difficult was having to draw my hands without looking because drawing hands is hard in general but when you cannot look at the paper, it makes it even worse. I was so tempted the whole time to just look down to see if it was even resembling a hand and I found it extremely annoying trying to draw that slow. I couldn’t take up as much time as was suggested because it was so tedious. I understood the point of the activity but it was definitely a challenge.
What we did in class the next day followed up on the reading. We focused on drawing different forms, all in nature and we had to draw what we saw with little to no looking at the paper. Once again, I found it frustrating that I wasn’t able to look at the paper as much as I wanted to. I wanted to look after every little line I drew, to check and make sure it looked right. But this wasn’t the point of the assignment. The point was to really look at what we were drawing and to get us to pay more attention to the different lines and forms of the object. We also had to look at a stool and not draw the stool, but draw around the stool; we looked at the negative space. But when we drew this outline, then cut it out, it still looked like the stool because the space around it creates the image as well. We also had to draw the human form. This was way more challenging than having to draw a tree or a rock. With only two minutes to draw the pose at first, and then five, I hardly felt like I started drawing before it was on to a new pose. At first, I felt like my drawings weren’t looking anything like the model, but with more time, I was able to focus more and had more time to get the form right; my drawings started to look more like the human form.
I decided to look more into the right and left side of the brain. I read a few more articles about it and even took a quiz on The Art Institute of Vancouver website, which told me that I was 46% left brained and 54% right brained, so the right side of my brain is dominant. I am more creative and I “use feeling and intuition to gather information.” The quiz gave me percentages of my left side and right side. It told me how linear, reality-based, symbolic, logical, sequential, and verbal I am for the left side, and then how concrete, fantasy-oriented, random, intuitive, nonverbal, and holistic I am for the right side. My most dominant characteristic on my left side is linear, meaning that I take information and line it up in a logical arrangement to come to my conclusion. On the right side, my most dominant characteristic is concrete, meaning that it is easier for me to process things that can be seen or touched. It is easier for me to understand things that I can visualize. It was a really interesting quiz because it gave explanations for all of the different characteristics and my results seemed really accurate. Here’s the link to the quiz!
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