關於如何繪畫的兩三句話…

  1. 5 perceptual skills of drawing: Perceiving, Drawing edges, Spaces, Relationships, Lights and Shadows, Gestalt or Likeness.
  2. Write your name means that you have expressed yourself through the use of line.
  3. Asymmetrical brain are common in vertebrates, lateralized brain are more efficient.
  4. Dominant-subordinate/subdominant ib ordinary life: left handed compliment-pejorative quality assigned to left hand. Right brain: right handed compliment-my good strong helper.
  5. Political right: admire national power and individual responsibility resist change-fascist/political left: admire people power and social responsibility favor change-anarchist.
  6. Gloom stands on the right bride left in the marriage: message if relative status.
  7. Which mode predominate: depend on which hemisphere get to the job quick and care most or like the task the best.
  8. R mode questions in drawing: spatial relational and comparative-no facial features named, no statements are made, no conclusion drawn. R mode: pleasurable come from resting the left hemisphere
  9. Inverted orientation cause recognition problems with other images.
  10. Discover how parts fit together: draw from line to adjacent line, space to adjacent shape.
  11. Childhood symbolic drawing enhance language acquisition.
  12. Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
  13. Present the brain with a task the left brain can't or won't handle: vase/face drawings, upside down drawing, experience alternative state of right hemisphere mode.
  14. Edge is where two things come together, shared edge is called contour line-always border of two things simultaneously.
  15. Contour drawing: touch the edge of a form as they drew it and keep eyes on subject of the drawing not on the drawing itself；realistic drawing is reproducing on a two dimensional surface, a perceived actual three dimensional object/copy what you see on the picture, plane with one eye closed.
  16. Binocular vision: depth perception allow us to see the world as 3D.
  17. Closer the viewed object, more eye closing purpose of realistic drawing is not to record data, but to record your unique perception, how you see or understand things you are drawing.
  18. Apply graphite to the paper and rub it to the even tone with paper towel（rub with circular motion applying pressure evenly and going right up to the edge of the format) lightly draw crosshair on the toned paper (會畫出深色有陰影深度的手）.
  19. The hard part in drawing sheeps would be the horns and legs, don't draw them. Draw the negative spaces.
  20. Nothing is more real than nothing/composition: the way artists arrange key elements of an artwork, positive shapes (objects or persons), negative spaces (empty areas) within the format.
  21. Importance of negative spaces: make difficult drawing tasks easy, emphasis on negative spaces unifies your drawing and strengthen your composition, enrich and expand perceptual abilities.
  22. Choose basic unit (medium that is easy to see and use) to start a drawing: the size of first shape controls the subsequent size of everything in the drawing.

上述喜愛的段落及句子皆節錄自：

書名：Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain 作者：Betty Edwards 出版：Tarcherperigree