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Erock
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Member # 189

posted 22-04-2005 09:43 AM

When i do it my art work looks all messed up. Like the balance and feel is thrown all off. Anybody know what im talking about or just try it and see what happends.

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Camdon
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Member # 298

posted 22-04-2005 12:29 PM

Yes, or hold the paper up to a light..

I find way more errors looking at it "Backwards". It has to do with the way your brain interprets things. If your right handed you will usually tend to have more errors on the left side ( Or right if your looking in a mirror )

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Bomu
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Member # 1

posted 22-04-2005 04:46 PM

Yeah, One error I consistently manage to produce is the ear height on a character's head- the right ear always being up higher than the left- this is particularly noticable when I check it out in a mirror.

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Jats1
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Member # 183

posted 22-04-2005 05:27 PM

I think I heard somewhere that doing that is a good way to see how good the drawing is - if it looks fine when reversed. Not sure though, maybe I dreamt it lol

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Zephos
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Member # 206

posted 24-04-2005 07:50 AM

Ah, that good old tried and true phenomenon. I've heard a lot of theories behind it similar to Camdon's, particularly regarding the difference being due to the shift of the creative right side to the logical left side of the brain when the work is flipped, but at best, it's just a theory. Another theory is that people subconsciously have a "Comfortable" drawing pattern, and when the work is flipped, this subconsious pattern is disrupted, and as such, the work no longer looks as they expect due to inversing of the balance and weight (The actual flipped image may indeed jolt the mind pattern into a more realistic interpretation of the work, as opposed to a skewed artist's initial interpretation).

Despite all of the theories behind it though, it seems to be a universally accepted fact though that it happens, psychologically if not anything else, and checking from both sides is indeed a good way to fine tune an image, although at it's extremes, they do occasionally tend to overlap and override each other (In the case that you flip on a computer and try to correct, only to find it looking screwy when you tilt it the other way).

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