"Right brain v left brain The myth: 91% of teachers believe

>>2875578
Because this place is full of clueless noobs repeating retarded memes. Still one of the best art boards on the interwebs though.

>>2875578

It's a good book that hammers concepts to complete beginners. And even then nearly everyone makes it a point to tell beginners to ignore the pseudoscience and just focus on the art shit.

>>2875578
You are confusing a conceptual model with scientific explanation. The "R-Mode" and "L-Mode" ideas are conceptual models, not attempts at trying to pinpoint exactly what parts of the brain do what. That is frankly irrelevant.

What is relevant is that "R-Mode" is how you're meant to be drawing. It is the kind of thinking that produces accurate reproductions. "L-Mode" is more analogous to your day-to-day logical thinking, but doesn't produce good work, it produces symbol drawing.

It is recommended because it works. The exercises in it work, the premise of the book earned the author a doctorate, and in general there is a great deal of empirical evidence that what produces good drawing is different than the kind of thinking you have day-to-day.

I admit that the book is very long winded at times and seems too hung up on explaining things with physiology, but I also think that without these explanations some of the exercises would seem nonsensical and hard for people to justify risking wasting their time on. People need to be convinced there is a method to the madness for it to work.

Some people would recommend skipping it and doing Keys to Drawing Instead. I don't think there's anything necessarily wrong with that but I'd personally recommend keeping with DoTRSotB at least until it turns into a portrait drawing book, because by that time the core techniques it has to teach, and why they work, have been taught. Especially for complete 0-experience beginners

Some people really seem to want to bury this book because "le-psuedo science" (again, this is a problem of reading comprehension. It's a book that presents a conceptual model, not a book on neuroscience) but it's helped a lot of people drawing, myself included, and I think it's worth any beginner's consideration.

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I've leafed through this book, but never read it in its entirety. Can anyone say whether it contains worthwhile exercises founded upon these principles (left)

>>2875606
Yes and they work, but only if you believe. It's literally brain magic. If you don't believe, the connections are never made and the chemicals aren't released to unlock your potential. It's controlling the brain to do what you want it to do.

>>2875578
It teaches to draw what you see. The retarded left/right brain pseudo science should always be skipped.
Keys to Drawing is superior for teaching the same stuff without the stupid pseudo science drivel.

>>2875578
Because the exercises and metaphors are good even though the science is a bunch of stupid bullshit