Re:Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind
by vanderZwan on Saturday April 23, 2016 @03:05PM
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Could that also be why untrained artists are better at drawing faces if they view and draw them upside down?
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Re:Aphantasia: How It Feels to Be Blind in Your Mind
by amagumori on Saturday April 23, 2016 @04:27PM
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In "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" the upside down drawing exercise is suggested and i think the reasoning is that people draw facial features as "symbols", resorting to their own idea of what a nose looks like / how to draw a nose rather than drawing what they see. Drawing upside down stops this. Maybe this is related.