So the assertion that right handed artists draw well with their left hands... Not great, but you can probably draw a more realistic human head, even if it's squiggly from using a hand not accustomed to drawing, than somebody can with their good hand. Instead of something that looks like a refined smiley face, you'll have a head with a ridge for the eyebrow and details that come from a lifetime of drawing experience. It's not going to be a masterpiece because your left hand isn't trained, but your eye for art is trained. If an artist lost the good hand in an accident, the other would eventually be able to create works equal to the other. That's because you draw with your brain. Your hand, mouse, camera, or whatever you create with, is just the means to share something that is already in your mind or something that you have the unique vision to discover. Most of my computer art is done by my left hand even though I'm a rightie. That's because I was starting to develop carpal tunnel in my right hand. It took a few weeks to develop some facility in my left hand, but now it's a fairly natural process to use it with a mouse. At work, I use my right hand and, at home, use my left. I still can't draw great with my left hand or write with it, but that's only because I haven't forced myself to develop some facility for those activities. I remember seeing a news special about an artist that lost his arms in a car accident and now draws with his foot. When I was thinking of the artistic "Eye", I was mostly thinking of an artist's inner creativity. I tend to think that creativity is something that can be nurtured more than it can be trained. Technique can be taught. Training can improve an artist because it shortens the trial by experimentation by showing them what more experienced artists have learned. The best artists would seem to have something that cannot be trained. > "Not everyone is born equal in intelligence... but they can BECOME equal" This is just my thought, but I don't think everyone has the same potential, but the potential most people have to do something is more often limited by themselves than by what they are capable of doing. The top artists, athletes, and mathematicians probably have some genetic advantage that all the practice in the world will not let others achieve. Having said that, I believe that anybody can achieve far more than they can imagine in any field that they desire if they work at it. The greatest limitation is giving up. A child, that only draws when forced to in a school art class, will never be as good as one that draws every day at home. It's not that the latter child is necessarily gifted as much as has probably been encouraged to draw and has learned to enjoy it. The first child can readily be a better artist, but has either decided to not try or has found something else that is more fun to do. The more somebody does something, the better they get at it because that practice is making new connections in the brain and reinforcing those that already exist. Somebody who doesn't practice those activities doesn't have the learning advantage that the practicing person gains. A great movie, about genetics vs. determination, is "Gattaca".

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