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Andrew Kneath
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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 6:39am \| IP Logged \| 1

John, when you draw a character like Spider-Man hanging upside down, do you always literally draw him that way or do you turn the paper over and draw him upright?

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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 6:51am \| IP Logged \| 2

Oh, I am SO tempted to mess with your head and
say I draw upside-down ----- but, no. I rotate the
page whenever I draw inverted objects.

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Mike Baswell
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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 9:01am \| IP Logged \| 3

I remember an exercise in high-school art class where we had to do the
drawing upside down. Something about recognizing everything as just
positive and negative spaces and learning to draw exactly what you see and
not what you think it's supposed to look like.
I'd imagine you never had to go through anything like that did you JB?

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Paulo Pereira
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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 9:03am \| IP Logged \| 4

I remember something about how drawing upside down also utilizes the right side of the brain, which is the artistic side. Or am I confusing that with drawing with your left hand?

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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 9:08am \| IP Logged \| 5

Paulo,
Thanks for jogging my memory more! Our instructor got the exercise out
of a book he was fanatical about at the time, it was called Drawing on the
Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. I just found it on the bookshelf.

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Andrew Kneath
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Posted: 06 January 2007 at 9:50am \| IP Logged \| 6

Thanks for your answer JB.

I have never tried drawing people upside down but thinking further about it, it would be incredibly difficult. It's like that trick of seeing upside down faces and the brain not registering that certain features are actually the right way up.

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