/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>1927508

>"As you became older the eye became a compound object with a pupil (a dot), the iris (a circle surrounding the dot), and the eyeball (a circle enclosing the smaller circle). These became your own personal "symbols" of what an eye looked like. In order to create likeness in a drawing of your family, you always drew the same faces but added long hair for Mom and Sister, and drew short hair for Dad. You may have even drawn Mom and Dad physically larger than you and Sister. These "symbols" that you drew over and over again got stored in your logical mind as what you would draw if asked to draw. Rather than draw what your visual mind ACTUALLY sees, your logical mind says "I see an eye - here's my symbol for an eye." and you draw the eye as you drew as a child.

>"Around sixth grade is when you decided that symbols just aren't gonna cut it anymore. You'd try and draw what you actually see, but your conditioned, logical mind, kicks in and overrides your creative impulse and spits out yet another symbol, or even better, a modified symbol that does somewhat resemble the object you want to draw.
>"Break your habit of drawing symbols and allow your artistic, visual mind to draw what it actually sees."

>>1770869
It isn't something /ic/ just bothers with. I've seen it in a couple drawing books. Drawing on the right side of the brain has a chapter on it.


The brain collects visual symbols that represent images we have seen. The older we get, the larger our symbol bank becomes. We stop noticing things around us--we think we already know what they look like.

Teacher demo: Teacher draws a symbol of mountains. This is what the left brain has decided mountains look like. Show kids a picture of mountains. Looking at the photo with the right brain, what differences do you notice in the lines of this image? Show kids a painting of a mountain landscape. Did artist use right or left brain? Do the same symbol demo, photo and painting discussion of lines using a person and then a tree. All of these symbols and paintings were drawn using lines. If you can draw a line, you can draw ANYTHING. The artistic skill here is not whether or not you can draw a line, it is learning to draw the lines you really see, rather than the ones you THINK you see. Let's train your right brain to observe the world before you draw any lines.