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Lianthanis In reply to anestezja [2015-04-03 22:10:31 +0000 UTC]

What? Why not, it's awesome, and beautiful ... and has such nice dynamic and the free, open left area of the drawing - usually in most cultures who write from left to right, the dynamics go the other way, but yours doesnt

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anestezja In reply to Lianthanis [2015-04-03 22:26:48 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much! That's an interesting thing to point out - I've never used the principle consciously. Its narrative possibilities aside, I've read somewhere that it can be read as looking towards the past vs looking toward the future, introvert vs extravert etc. Maybe the fact that I've always found it easier to draw the left profile, in people and animals, than the right, says something about me . What about you, do you have any preferences?

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Lianthanis In reply to anestezja [2015-04-03 22:41:38 +0000 UTC]

I noticed it right away because it's rather unusual -might as well have been the reason for your editor not liking it so much? Some people look at such exceptions and feel uncomfortable about this otherness.
There are possibly many ways to interprete this, but I've never really read about it - except for some things concerining narrative adaptations into visual media (mainly films - LOTR and The Hobbit) and so it really stood out to me now.
As for me, I always found that at certain points I was better at doing either left or right, thgen tried to fix it and I swung over to being better at what I used to be less good at first.
But I'm also some sort of ambidextrous - my Mom told me I was first trying to draw or write with my left hand. She then gave me the pen to hold in my right and it never mattered. I also remember being in kindergarten that I would copy the way and direction of a child writing, sitting to face me - so I was writing in 'mirror' way, liek daVinci. My kindergarten teacher called me stupid for it ...
And asfor weapons - my left hand seems to be suited best for it, be it pistols or swords/sabres etc

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anestezja In reply to Lianthanis [2015-04-05 16:29:54 +0000 UTC]

You are ambidextrous? That's super cool (and that kindergarten teacher shouldn't work with children :/). You probably know Przemek Truściński's art... he had a serious accident when he was 14, he almost lost his right arm. So he taught himself to draw with his left hand. My secret theory is that's why he's so frikkin good. Better connection between his left and right brain and whatnot

Aaand... pistols? swords? sabres? Girl are you some kind of a super soldier?

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Lianthanis In reply to anestezja [2015-04-05 22:50:20 +0000 UTC]

Not like really, totally. But I can also write with my left hand, and to a certain extend also draw with it. But it really doesn't look good I noticed during an art class - my right hand would've always been in the way, unless I'd use my left - and it worked. Nothing sophisticated, of course, just very basic things, like colouring flat planes on a paper.

Ah well ... she just said things like that in an off-hand way. Like: 'Oh my, what are you doing that for, it's stupid.' She didn't inted to hurt me, I guess but it's how it was back then. You wouldn't encourage kids but peg them down a notch for not doing it 'right'. I remember that we had three ladies, one of them was a mother with now background in teaching children at all. It might have been her.

Przemek Truściński? He was also involved with some Wiedźmin projects, right? I definetly didn't know about his past but would agree that it really made him that good - cause it took a lot of endurance and will to succeed with the 'wrong' hand.

Yes I had an exchange year in the US - and along with my one and only wonderful art class with an amazing Scottish teacher I also had a P.E. class. It was a requirement to have certain P.E. classes and I wasn't sure wether I was excempted or not. So when I realised there was a fencing class and so I took it
And I also went to a bunch of LARPs ages ago and I made my own bastard sword out of glass fibre, soft rubber stuff, coulour and latex
As for shooting - a friend took me with her to her shooting club so I got to try out pistols for free for an hour or se In all cases it came out my left hand was my dominant one.
In my fancing class I didn't volunteer when my teacher asked for left-handers - cause I didn't think of myself of one. But then I realized that the drills didn't work so well for me ... and that I was holding my foil in my left hand

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anestezja In reply to Lianthanis [2015-04-08 13:53:25 +0000 UTC]

So cool. I always wanted to try historical fencing. Maybe one day when I'm old

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Lianthanis In reply to anestezja [2015-04-08 17:53:13 +0000 UTC]

Unfortunately it wasn't historical fencing ... but it was better than nothing for sure And it was fun, I wish it wasn't so expensive and so posh here

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