From the course: 5-Day Drawing Challenge: Drawing Your Own Reality
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The science of drawing
From the course: 5-Day Drawing Challenge: Drawing Your Own Reality
The science of drawing
- I want to share an analogy with you about drawing. I think it explains the important correlation between drawing and the formation of creative ideas. When you use a taxi, you do so because you need to move from point a to point b. It's a vehicle that will carry you to the correct destination. Drawing is like a taxi for your ideas. When you draw out ideas, the drawings act like a visual vehicle, a taxi, that takes your thinking for a ride and delivers it to the next logical, or illogical, stage of thinking. Drawing, in combination with free thinking, is how you discover clever ideas and problem-solve. There is a scientific reason for this. 75 percent of our brain's sensory processing is dedicated to visual information. The majority of your brain's processing capacity is visually oriented. The rest of your senses: smell, touch, hearing and taste combined make up a mere 25 percent. We are prewired to think visually. A study published in the Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology found…
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