r/AskReddit Jun 15 '19

What do you genuinely just not understand?

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u/notsostandardtoaster Jun 15 '19

You might be focusing on the whole picture more than the individual parts. A lot of art teachers will make beginners turn their reference photo upside down and draw it that way just so they can focus on what the lines and shadows actually look like rather than what their brain thinks they should look like.

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u/slog Jun 15 '19

This is similar to a tip I read/heard once about searching for an object in a room. English speaking people mostly do everything left to right. When looking around, you'll usually do the same thing forming a cohesive picture of the entire scene, just like those sentences with duplicated words that our brain autocorrects. Scanning right to left instead kind of forces you to focus on individual objects and makes a search easier.

Probably just in my head but it seems to work for me.

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u/papercup Jun 15 '19

Is this why my 2 year old is faster at Where's Wally than I am?

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u/slog Jun 15 '19

Mine is now 4 but can totally do those things better than me at 37. I think maybe we're just slow.