Comments on: Ambidextrous Drawing by Angie Chung

By: walter

walter — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 20:09:16 +0000

She's a friggen noob I can do better than that
Anyone can mirror image movements,
Drawing different things with different hands is a different story

By: AliceSacco

AliceSacco — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:04:59 +0000

drawing with both hands at the same time is difficult for me. I have make some pratice(not much, really) and now i'm able to use both hand (i use better again right hand) but use both hand, at the same time is difficult, also for specular drawings.

By: Melissa

Melissa — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:26:15 +0000

She can definitely draw better than I can, but the other comments are right about how she's drawing with "both" hands. It's not difficult to draw/write something with your main hand and write a mirror image of it with your second hand. I didn't realize this until someone showed me how easy it was to sign your name with your main hand and simultaneously sign a mirror image of your name with your second hand. It's interesting how the brain makes it easy to do that.

By: Lionheart

Lionheart — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:38:32 +0000

I would like to watch her doing an asymmetric drawing.

By: Bret

Bret — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:20:16 +0000

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

By: JamesM

JamesM — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:35:01 +0000

MrPumpernickel: "I wouldn’t really call that ambidextrous drawing. Most of the time she’s either moving both pencils in ways which mirror each other or she’s moving one pencil while the other is essentially still." That is exactly it. Majority of people cannot move/draw with each hand independently of the other, so most of the time it's a resting state for one of the two, or "mirrored" strokes. The movement doesn't have to be identical, but similar enough that when a big enough change in movement happens in one hand... what happens? The other hand stalls. Pretty much what is happening in the video. Try it yourself on a sheet of paper.

By: jack.wh

jack.wh — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:00:12 +0000

By about 4:00 minutes in, I could swear it's was going to be Beardy Branson

By: yo

yo — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:17:32 +0000

not impressed...

By: Gellner

Gellner — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:41:48 +0000

MrPumpernickel is right...sure she's drawing with both hands, but it's very rarely at the same time. She's just drawing a picture with both hands

By: Drunken Zombie

Drunken Zombie — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:37:05 +0000

Any one who is a fan of MAD magazine is no doubt a fan of Sergio Argones, the guy who does all those drawing in the borders. He draws ambidextrously, however he can be drawing two totally separate things. It is truly something to behold.

By: Jayde

Jayde — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:53:07 +0000

I find it amazing that she can use both hands at all. I'm left handed and I'm completely useless with my right hand. And she's even using both hands at (somewhat) the same time.

By: pfelelep

pfelelep — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:05:33 +0000

MrPumpernickel say it all, no more to add.

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 12:11:50 +0000

I wouldn't really call that ambidextrous drawing. Most of the time she's either moving both pencils in ways which mirror each other or she's moving one pencil while the other is essentially still.

I'd be impressed if she actually drew different things with either hand, for instance worked on the eye with the right hand and drew the mouth with the left at the same time.