#spatial ability

you know what i'd like to know. why exactly parallel lines scrambles my brain so hard. so i have those blue guide lines because i have spent so many hours on this painting i just can't deal with me placing face parts in the wrong place and having to move them, so i'm giving myself a little hand here. i still managed to have the hair WAY too high and had to move it down like, a solid inch. but let me TELL YOU.

i'm trying to do the shadows and hair on the top right part of jensen's head and it's like i just can't count/see/understand/grasp what is happening. i can count dark shadow line, lighter shadow line, darker shadow line, dark hair chunk, light hair chunk, slightly darker hair chunk, lighter hair chunk. but then i try to actually do that and i'm going crosseyed. and when i try to add in that i'm trying to make those lines in reference to the guide lines???? it will take many iterations to get anything in the right place.

imagine me living in this 2 story house for the past 7 years and when i try to figure out where a bedroom upstairs is in relation to a downstairs room i'm in and having no idea other than trying to remember what you can see out the window in that room to give me an idea if it's facing the front or back yard.

okay so now imagine me deciding i'm going to try to draw a car in a one point perspective based on a reference not in that perspective. i've been reading a variety of tutorials and watching things and i'll think i understand but then i get to the thing i'm working on and it's like it's a different language. this isn't exactly what my example was how am i supposed to translate this 🥲

anyway. decided i'm gonna just get out the sketch pad and see if i can do it at a bigger scale with a simpler setup. maybe recreate the thing i do have a picture of (a van) in the perspective of the photo i'm drawing by using the things i've learned, and then try to see if i can translate that to a different vehicle.

let's talk about my lack of certain spatial abilities and when i run into problems with it while trying to draw

let me give you an idea of how much i (very small scale) struggle with this in regular life. we have a new (ok we've had it for several years but it still feels new) dishwasher that's got this cool utensil tray up on the top. we put the forks in one way on one side, the spoons in another. something like this

so, i almost always am standing on the right of the dishwasher when i put stuff in. i have memorized which way the spoons go, and before i put a fork in, i look at the spoon and flip it. if there isn't a spoon in there yet, sometimes i have to pretend i'm gonna put the fork in the spoon slot so i can flip it and know which way is correct. if i'm on the left side of the dishwasher (the perspective in that photo) and i need to put a spoon or fork in and there aren't any already.... brain grinds to a halt. i have to try to imagine i'm on the other side of the dishwasher and how the spoon would go in. it's absurd. i do this many times a day, every day - for several years!

my spouse has watched me countless times try to do something like arrange shoes in a shoebox and be like hey nope, doesn't fit that way; rotate it and put it back in the same way with me none the wiser, thinking i tried another rotation that also didn't work.

i also can't visualize (aphantasia) so mentally rotating an item is a no-go. it's like trying to logic it out without a picture. it's ridiculous. anyway. getting to this art situation above. i found a wagon similar to our converted hearse in a similar angle, but not the same angle. so i chopped it out and put it into my reference file. now i'm looking at my painting thinking i know that the proportions on my car front/wheel (the part i want to make up from scratch, it's not in my reference art photo) is off. but i know i can't crib directly from the brown wagon photo either because it's a different perspective. so i sat here staring at it with my hands in the air trying to imagine if i could hold the car in my hand and rotate it, how much it needs to move to be similar to my hearse reference. and how would that affect how the front of the car looks.

ha.... ha. cut to me holding up one of my kids' toy trucks in front of the screen

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