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When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspec
by john2x 3y ago
When I was learning to draw, one technique to help spot errors is to flip the drawing upside down. This made misaligned features, bad proportions, weird perspective issues immediately jump out.
Maybe it's the same effect.
- recursivecaveat 3y agoIt sounds like the 'prism-goggles' from the article's experiment control for the effect of just looking at it upside down. Clearly what's needed is to hang some students by their feet and send some others to space to see if it's the inner-ear effects or the posture that changes your perception :P
- SamBam 3y agoArt teachers also have people copy existing art upside down, or turn their still life upside down (if possible). By trying to reproduce something upside down, your brain doesn't do as much pre-processing and chunking into preconceived shapes, and you're forced to actually look at the shape of the thing.
- numpad0 3y agoYou can do left to right for jpegs too. It's astonishing it works.