#askflutterbat

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Damn I didn’t read first. ignore me.

no but

Mhmmmm! It’s actually pretty common for artists to draw most of their work facing in one direction— left, right, maybe even more centered and forward if they struggle with profiles.

Whichever hand is your dominant hand can really play into this. Since you don’t want to smudge your drawing, or hide it under your hand, it becomes common practice to draw the face of your subject and then move your hand away from it.

And even if you integrate into digital art, I feel like you still sort of stick to your traditional practices. Because I know that now, even though I’m not gonna smudge my drawing or whatever, I still feel more comfortable drawing things facing to the left. 

Although I also have a strong, obsessive practice of flipping and rotating my canvas constantly while I draw to get the best angle, so now I’m even less comfortable doing traditional art since it doesn’t provide the same flexibility.