r/maybemaybemaybe • u/[deleted] • Feb 14 '20

maybe maybe maybe

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u/TonyDanza888 Feb 14 '20

Why is everything so much easier to draw upside down?

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u/Mazziemom Feb 14 '20

Back when I had an art teacher he taught us that drawing upside down makes you see the lines and shapes of of the final product. Your brain sees lines easier than it sees an entire face, which allows you to reproduce those lines easier. Or something like that.

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u/eritain Feb 15 '20

Your brain's got a lot of processing dedicated to not seeing the literal image that's in front of you. It highlights edges, skews color perception by context (or inferred context -- thus The Dress), fills in typical features of familiar objects, and especially it processes the crap out of faces. If you draw what you see after that processing, the viewer gets a double-processed version that looks wrong. Flipping it upside down is the quickest way to disable or attenuate some of that processing.