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Original post by Oluseyi
...try turning the picture upside down.
(Posed as a genuine question) What's the logic behind that? Is it because the eye actually sees things upside down before the brain flips the image right side up?
Most of us recognize the objects we're trying to draw and then fill in information from our understanding of them. A classic example is the novice drawing a cube: he knows that it is composed of six faces with a uniform edge length - six squares - and as such tries to draw rectangular shapes. The result, of course, looks nothing like the impression a cube on a table makes on the eye.
Inverting the source image disrupts that cognitive/analytical process, so you're just copying a jumble of lines. If your finished work approximates the original to any significant degree, then you have the motor skills necessary to draw well. You just need to learn how to bypass that cognitive/analytica superimposition.
(I got the technique from one of the books that I know slowpid will be using, Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Even as someone who's been drawing for years with minimal "left brain" interference, I've discovered useful techniques for increasing my image fidelity. I recommend it to everyone here who considers themself to be a beginner.)
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Original post by D Shankar
Also, wouldn't looking at things upside down degrade one's pose understanding?
Pose comes later. Drawing upside down is a short-term technique to help you lose certain bad habits. Once you've conquered those, you'll return to drawing right-side-up.
