Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Want critiques?

KarenJ opened this issue on Mar 21, 2007 · 1211 posts


Acadia posted Sun, 22 April 2007 at 12:20 AM

Quote - But to understand the vision , its Necessary to take more than a short look. 

Even if I wanted to take a quick look at an image, I can't. My brain can't process the full image all at once. I literally don't see a whole image when I initially look at it.  When I click on a link to view an image, I see bits and pieces of it... like random words on a page that haven't come together to tell a story. When I said I "read" an image, I really "read" the image and it's not a conscious decision to spend more or less time looking at something.  Let's look at Edmund Leighton's "The Accolade" image for example (probably my favourite piece of fantasy art).  When most people look at this image they see a Queen and a kneeling man who is being knighted.  I don't see that, at least not initially.  

What I see are pieces  or elements of the image: colours, shapes, shadows, highlights, the drape of a sleeve, the wave of the hair, a helmet on the floor......all individually, like a puzzle that hasn't been put together to form a complete picture.    Just like when you read. You  don't instantly see the story: you see individual words that come together to form first a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter and ultimately a whole story.  But you don't get the story until you have spent time reading each word in that story.

I don't know why my brain sees images that way, but it does.  It's possible that it's because I'm dyslexic or that I started life out as a "lefty" and was smacked and converted to a  "righty".  It's a medical fact that the brains of those who are left handed are wired differently than those who are right handed.  So it's my theory that because I started off using my left hand and now my right hand is my dominant one, that the two sides of my brain conflict with each other.  I also suspect that my dyslexia is a direct  result of this.

I sometimes wish I could take a picture of how I "see" things sometimes because it's really difficult to explain it.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi