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Wow, This Explains Why I'm Not Artistic
9 years ago
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/201.....ntil-last-week
While I don't have much desire to draw anything, I have made a few different creative attempts in the past: layout design, very bad photomanipulation, 3D modeling, and writing just to name a few. In all those attempts though, I always felt there was something lacking in my results, and I don't just mean inexperience. The fact that I can't visualize things describes that feeling to the letter, and it explains why I always need so much help designing things.
When I try layouts I have to do trial and error too much, when I did 3D modeling I could never make anything remotely organic, and when I tried to write visual descriptions were always the parts that stumped me. When things can be technical or measured though it makes it a lot easier for me, and I can explain a feeling or experience much easier (which is probably why I default to writing when I do try to create something.)
These are always such interesting situations: when you learn about a long-time limitation you never knew you had.
While I don't have much desire to draw anything, I have made a few different creative attempts in the past: layout design, very bad photomanipulation, 3D modeling, and writing just to name a few. In all those attempts though, I always felt there was something lacking in my results, and I don't just mean inexperience. The fact that I can't visualize things describes that feeling to the letter, and it explains why I always need so much help designing things.
When I try layouts I have to do trial and error too much, when I did 3D modeling I could never make anything remotely organic, and when I tried to write visual descriptions were always the parts that stumped me. When things can be technical or measured though it makes it a lot easier for me, and I can explain a feeling or experience much easier (which is probably why I default to writing when I do try to create something.)
These are always such interesting situations: when you learn about a long-time limitation you never knew you had.
Given the example in the article: Imagining an apple. The closest I can get is focusing on the outline of what I know an apple looks like. When I close my eyes, all I see is black, no matter what I try to think about.
Like if I want to visualize a shape in my mind, I have to focus very hard on the outline. It's much easier to stare at desk and trace the shape with my finger, but that clarity fades over a few seconds.