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TDK · 12-18-2011, 02:30 AM

So this video has been making the rounds, featuring a person supposedly drawing two portraits at once, one with either hand, and I call absolute bullshit. When drawing, I focus so hard on the spot I'm drawing that something falling on the paper a few inches away can go unnoticed. This is why artists need to occasionally hold a drawing at arm's length so they can view the whole thing without tunnel vision. And these are detailed portraits with shading. Even without tunnel vision, you can't focus on two spots at once enough to see the shading properly enough to draw it. Try reading two pieces of text at once on two different parts of a page.

So I call shenanigans.

I've also been looking at the hands and the left hand looks significantly less feminine than the right, to me (look at the arms, in some parts).

But maybe I'm biased. What do you guys think?

12-18-2011, 02:30 AM	#1
TDK Sent to the cornfield Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Reality Posts: 2,914	Person draws with two hands at once? So this video has been making the rounds, featuring a person supposedly drawing two portraits at once, one with either hand, and I call absolute bullshit. When drawing, I focus so hard on the spot I'm drawing that something falling on the paper a few inches away can go unnoticed. This is why artists need to occasionally hold a drawing at arm's length so they can view the whole thing without tunnel vision. And these are detailed portraits with shading. Even without tunnel vision, you can't focus on two spots at once enough to see the shading properly enough to draw it. Try reading two pieces of text at once on two different parts of a page. So I call shenanigans. I've also been looking at the hands and the left hand looks significantly less feminine than the right, to me (look at the arms, in some parts). But maybe I'm biased. What do you guys think?