1. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

2. Learning to Draw Learn how to see
Process visual information in a special way used by artist
Learn skills to break free from stereotypic expression

3. Pre-instruction drawings: A record of your art skills
A Self-Portrait
A Person, Drawn from Memory
My Hand
Turn to a fresh page in your sketchbook and spend the next 2-3 minutes drawing a person from memory… I’ll tell you when time’s up!

4. Why did we do that?
Drawing from memory brings forth memorized set of symbols, practiced over and over during childhood.
Children learn to draw by repetition of symbols
Left untrained adults will continue to produce “childish” drawings right into adulthood.

5. Your Brain: The Right and Left
The Left hemisphere controls the right side of the body
The Right hemisphere controls the left side of the body

6. Right Brain Left Brain Excel in math, music, and chess
Intuitive Figuring things out without a logical order
Leaps of insight, often incomplete patterns, feelings, hunches
Divergent Thinking differently, not following the trend
Spatial Seeing where things are in relation to other things and how parts go together
Non-temporal Without a sense of time
Analogical Seeing likeness among things, metaphoric moments when “everything seems to fall into place”
Excel in math, music, and chess
Verbal Good with language, use words to describe and define
Analytical Figuring things out step-by-step
Rational Drawing conclusions based on reason and facts
Linear Think in terms of linked ideas, one following another
Logical Drawing conclusions based on logic

7. Left and Right Brains

8. Shifting from L-mode to R-mode
Drawing is largely R-mode
L-mode is prone to be speedy, rush into words, symbols take over

9. Vases Faces-
Shifts from Left
To right brain.