Are you a "Lefty" or a "Righty"?

[ironman]

Hi Boys & Girls, In the world of creativity there seems to be a lot of lefthanded people, more so than in the general population. I once took a drawing class with 18 people in it, 16 of them were lefthanded. We lefties are predominately "right brained", which is considered the creative side SO, I'd be curious as to how many lefties as opposed to righties we have out there in cyberspace and how you feel that affects your work?
I'm a lefty, and I approach my work on a more intuitive (right brain) than cerebral (left brain) level. One problem with that is trying to explain, in words, what one has wrought by a process that doesn't include any. David Smith said something to the effect that "there were no words in the doing so why should there be words in the explaining?"
Of course the left brain plays some role in all of this, but I think that role is minimal.
Any thoughts on this subject?
Have a great day,
Jeff :D

[sculptor]

curious subject Jeff
righty here
me mum, and son are lefties

I have superior abilities in spatial referencing
being
left brained by training and education
right brained by choice of activities(and maybe inherited talents)

I approach work in a slow methodical almost mathematical way----I plan the job then revise the plan then revise the revision proceeding with a critical eye until something begins to happen and the shapes and volumetric expressions of the material take over and the spatial referencing warms up the rightbrain activity----then, if I'm really lucky, conscious thought, words, selfdoubts, revisions and restraints cease as the hand and eye unite in a creative dance------Tempus fugit without me--I can become unaware of my body and let the work guide the hand---on a good day this can occur 2-3 times and last for 2-3 hrs at a time----on a bad day, not at all

my guess--------the left brain planning stage outlines the mission and sets parameters for the destination-----then the freedom operates within these constraints, and when it meanders outside the construct, something pops a switch, and I step back with a critical eye----if it cannot grasp an image of a problem, it fades and I'm back in the groove---conversely, if the work violated or exceeded the plan, the revision process returns---(at this stage, I suspect that the more active corpus colossum-of the female brain should be darned handy) ¿Are women really better at expressing their emotions in words? If so, would the same hold true for the art?
(My sculpting mentor, John Kroll was fond of calling me a victim of too much education.)
it's more fun and productive if the train stays on track and i ain't gotta worry about steering
whither hence-----is the mermaid Derceto, Astargatis(Astarte, ISIS) and Dagon's bride----how do fishfolk have sex?
Are all my female sculptures the varied faces of the same goddess---am i an instrument of her desire? Anyone know much about chainsaws?

rod
sculptor (http://home.mindspring.com/~mandali/id1.html)

[WBK]

I'm a right hander. However since I've been playing with stone, I've noticed I hold the chisel with my left hand and (try to) hit it with the hammer in my right. I hadn't considered that till just now.

A painter friend writes with his right and paints with his left.

Fish sex is fairly boring, I've seen it on a hot fish site.

[Julianna]

Like Bill, I'm right-handed hand tend to hold my chisel in my left. Personally, it's because I trust my right hand more when it comes to hurtling a heavy piece of metal towards another hand :D

Lately, though, I've been switching this (i.e. holding my chisel in my right hand and hammer in my left) when I do crude work so I don't end up with one muscular arm and one puny one.

[Araich]

Right-handed. But I use the mouse in my left.

[sculptorsam]

Lately, though, I've been switching this (i.e. holding my chisel in my right hand and hammer in my left) when I do crude work so I don't end up with one muscular arm and one puny one.

That's pure genius!

Righty here, but with just a bit more effort, I could be ambidexterous. I'm sure of it.

[JAZ]

Righty also. But lots of work is done with both.
And don't worry Julianna, with this kind of work there's not much chance either arm will be puny.

[anne (bxl)]

totally righty! too much cerebral? maybe.
I'll think about....

[Roy]

I'm right handed, but I know that I must be "lexdecksic" in my left brain. I'm a very slow reader, but if I cover my right eye, I can almost read normal. Foreign movies drive me crazy. I have to force myself to tear my eyes off the visual to read. When I'm doing art, I want no left brain, linear process like reading or even music with words. I listen to classical music.

[obseq]

I am a righty, although my parents have mentioned to me that as an infant, I almost exclusively favored my left hand.

On another note, the word, left, derives from Latin, meaning, sinister.

Good idea for a thread!

[sculptor]

....On another note, the word, left, derives from Latin, meaning, sinister.

Good idea for a thread!

....and, I had thought LEFT was from the Anglo-Saxon lyft, left meaning weak or worthless............

whither(from AS. hwyder) hence?

sculptor (http://home.mindspring.com/~mandali/index.html)

[Blacksun]

Right handed as well..... Hammer in the right, rasp in the right, torch in the right, modeling tools in the right, paintbrush in the right, pencil etc in the right, fork in the right.... looks like I would be damn near useless without my "good right hand".

I've made an informal poll of artist friends and acquaintances (United States / southeast in case there might be regional/cultural differences.... :confused: )..... seems 3D folks tend to be right handed and our 2D cousins tend to be lefties....

[ironman]

Hi, So far on this thread we have ONE lefty (me) and TEN righties. I'm surprised at that but as Blacksun's informal poll seems to suggest, it's the 2D people who are left handed. Maybe I should have stuck to painting, actually, I still paint now and then but consider myself a sculptor, first & foremost.
I hope other people respond to this thread.
GO YANKEES!!!!!!!!!!!
Have a nice day,
Jeff

[dblcorona]

From reading the posts, alot of you say that you do some with the left. I guess I am right but am not really sure. I do so many things with my left that people think that I am left handed. I always wondered if I was changed when I started school. My mom said I would do everything with both. She alwaays said I was ambidexturous. What is weird is that my 4 1/2 yr old daughter is exactly the same way. When I have left handed welding students, its nothing for me to change hands for their demos. So was it natural or conditional?

[ironman]

Hi dblcorona, WOW, that's incredible. I didn't know that there were people who were born that way and maintained it into adulthood. Now if you can hit a curveball, I know of two major league teams (Cardinals & Yankees) that could use you as a switch hitter!
Have a nice day,
Jeff

[sculptor]

just a curiosity-bit of trivia I wanted to share

A number of Basque words were borrowed into local varieties of Spanish, including Castilian, but very few of these have survived. One which has survived is Castilian izquierdo `left (hand)', which is borrowed from the synonymous Basque ezker, or more precisely from an unrecorded Basque derivative *ezkerdo.

dblcorona-------a question of balance? I say---inherited-natural and then reinforced with conditioning-----and-----darned handy

Rod
(son and father of lefties)

[obseq]

Rod,

Great bit of information--thanks for posting it. I am definately a linguaphile, so it's really interesting to note your findings, especially since we both heard of differet etymological deviations for 'left.'

[anne (bxl)]

I am definately a linguaphile
so you might be interrested to know about french :

> la droite = the right side/ tout droit = straight on / le droit = the laws / il est adroit = he is skilled (litterally : he is on right) / la dextérité (from latin and 18°century french "dextre" : droit) = skillfullness
> la gauche = the left side / il est maladroit-il est gauche = he is clumsy (litterally : he is bad on right-he is left) / like in latin and italian, in the 18°century french : senestre = left

So qualities are attibuted to righties and defaults to lefties.

[obseq]

Anne,

I am Québécois from Montréal, and grew up speaking French, English, and Arabic,(My father is Lebanese/Mother is Québécoise). When we moved to the states, the schools scared my parents into thinking that if we spoke French at home that my brother and I would fall far behind. As it is, my parents made an extra effort to make sure we were entirely adept in English since we were somewhat frowned upon. As I was educated in the U.S., I never had a chance to learn reading/writing in French all that well. It also doesn't help that I've been back home only twice in about 10 years due to different circumstances, so the only French I've been able to speak is by myself or on the rare occasion I see my parents.

so you might be interrested to know about french :

> la droite = the right side/ tout droit = straight on / le droit = the laws / il est adroit = he is skilled (litterally : he is on right) / la dextérité (from latin and 18°century french "dextre" : droit) = skillfullness
> la gauche = the left side / il est maladroit-il est gauche = he is clumsy (litterally : he is bad on right-he is left) / like in latin and italian, in the 18°century french : senestre = left

So qualities are attibuted to righties and defaults to lefties.

[oddist]

So, in a way, it has been determined here that lefties are 2D and righties are 3D...

In the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" there is an exersise where you copy a 2D picture that is displayed "upside down". For those unfamiliar with this exersise, this is supposed to throw off the logical interpretation of what is seen, therefore making it easier to copy.

Has anyone ever tried to "sculpt" upside down?

Do we need a book "Sculpting on the right side of the brain"?

[obseq]

After this informal sampling of the community, does anyone put much personal stock into what is said about the respective groups?

As Gerry mentioned above, 'lefties' are 2-D, and 'righties' are 3-D?

Vehement denial, anyone? ;)

[JAZ]

After this informal sampling of the community, does anyone put much personal stock into what is said about the respective groups?

As Gerry mentioned above, 'lefties' are 2-D, and 'righties' are 3-D?

Vehement denial, anyone? ;)

For many years I was 2D (children's book art and painting), then a number of years ago I becasme 3D when I discovered welding and other processes. But I've always been primarily right-handed. That may not be vehement, but...
JAZ

[Morgen_K]

I started out ambidextrous - grade school teacher made me pick a hand (why? dunno.. it was nice to switch when one hand got tired).. :cool:

I chose left at the insistance of my siblings - they said it was "more cool". I can still draw a pretty decent illustration with my right hand, but it gives me an actual headache. However I sculpt a bit with both still (tired hands again). ;)

[iron ant]

Another right handed sculptor,but I can mig left when the form does not give you a choice.I never tried to tig with the gun in my left hand,but I might try.Someone mentioned sculpting upside down,I figure I have welded in every position you can imagine,and not always by choice.I dont think I could smack the anvil holding the hammer with the left,now that would be tricky.

[fritchie]

Pretty wild thread, which I skipped for a long time. I was exclusively right-handed most of most life, but I’ve noticed that I do more work, in a natural way, with my left hand in sculpture. Mostly right, but left as well.

On another angle, I read somewhere when I was in my early teens, or maybe even earlier, that Leonardo da Vinci practiced “mirror writing”, writing backward so that the material read correctly in a mirror. I practiced this and got fairly good at it. I think I used exclusively with my right hand, but it might have been my left. I really don’t remember.

Anyone else try mirror writing?

And, on still another note: I read a couple of years ago that archeologists have concluded Europeans, at least, have become more right-handed over the last ten or so thousand years, from perhaps thirty percent then to about ten percent today. Any comment on this?

[iron ant]

Frichie,reminds me of Esher drawing himself holdong a mirror.My son,who is seven,had a pen in his had before he could walk.I think I will get him to try the mirror trick to stimulate that brain,keep from getting bored,and just for fun.

[ironman]

Hi, Well I do know that up until the 1940's, children that started school as lefties were turned into righties in some places.
I started this thread just out of curiosity and due to the fact that in one life drawing class that I took there were 16 lefties out of 18 students!
It seems that most of the sculptors on this site are righties, so now I'll have to poll all my 2d friends and see where that leads.
I'm a lefty and maybe that accounts for the fact that I am also a painter (at times), but I can't do a damn thing with my right hand, not even THAT, hee, hee!
So, who knows? Creativity as well as left handedness are both right brained activities.
Oh Fritchie, Why don't you start another thread about mirror writing, which by the way, I've never tried.
Have a nice day,
Jeff

[PeterG]

Right here.

Perhaps in Europe, over the centuries left handed people were disadvantaged (due to superstition) and it was slowly, selectively bred out of the population???

[kathleenfen]

Interesting thread....
I suppose I would say I fall in the ambidexterous category...although, I'm predominately left or right handed for different things. If I learn something using both left and right at the same time, then I become equally adept with both hands. If I predominately use one or the other, then that will become the dominant hand until I practice with the other sufficiently to equal it out.

This 3-D, 2-D arguement is interesting, so I'm going to throw this into the pot...I've done both, but am primarily 3-D. My husband is 3-D all the way and he's a lefty..so does this qualify as a counter arguement? ;)

[ilona]

Righty.

I once took a test to determine which side of the brain is dominant for me, and I was determined to be a 'whole brain' person...I use both sides equally. Not surprising considering I work in a scientifically technical field, but love to create art as well.

[Morgen_K]

So, in a way, it has been determined here that lefties are 2D and righties are 3D...

In the book "Drawing on the right side of the brain" there is an exersise where you copy a 2D picture that is displayed "upside down". For those unfamiliar with this exersise, this is supposed to throw off the logical interpretation of what is seen, therefore making it easier to copy.

Has anyone ever tried to "sculpt" upside down?

Do we need a book "Sculpting on the right side of the brain"?
Interesting info indeed!

Even tho I was born ambidexterous... In sculpting tho, I've always still be quite ambi - and YES - I DO routinely sculpt upsidedown!!! How fascinating! :eek: I have that book.. I should check it out..

[mynick]

hi lefty here, but hammer with right , i tried switching hands once & couldn't even hit the chisel.Hit the stone instead & one head fell off. Tried again & found my fingers came in handy to protect the stone, but it hurt.I'm definately left handed.

[bluedogshuz]

Lefty.. as a matter of fact all of the art I make seems to be geared to a lefty perspective. I was working on a construction today and a piece of it could be left facing or right, my friend who is a righty wanted it turned around, I did and it screwed up hte whole piece.. moral: don't change it if it works for you.
PS Dont we shake with our left hands?

[Arrow]

Righty. Right eye requires lower power contact. I get up on the right side of the bed and usually drive on the right side of the road. But right now I'm writing with both hands.

[Mano]

Left hand: Write, draw, paint w/ brushes, carve w/ knives & mallet chisels, eat w/ chopsticks, mouse at work.

Right hand: everything else including spray paint, airbrush, carve w/ palm chisels, eat w/ fork, and mouse at home.

I'm not sure how this contributes to the topic but hopefully it does.

:)

[WernerStudio]

I am a definite lefty and art is my fourth profession, the first three being in scientific/technical fields. I also started out working in 2D and in the past several years, have moved more and more into 3D to the point where I have trouble working in 2D anymore. I guess I blow the statistics that have been developing in this thread.

Interestingly, years ago I was doing an internship for IBM and I was working on the roll-out for a major new computer. There were dozens (if not hundreds) of systems engineers like myself from all around the U.S. who were in the same facility to help with the project. One day, several of us realized that we were all left-handed, so we began to ask the others which they were. Approximately 75% of the other systems engineers were lefties too, yet we were in a very technical profession. Perhaps because we worked directly with customers, we needed the facility to use our entire brain and lefties seem to do that better (as a group) than righties.

Jill Rumoshosky Werner

[oddist]

JIll,

The magic word is "System"...A system is a really big 3D problem...You may have thought you were working in 2D because of what showed up on paper..but what was in your head all those years was most likely a 3 dimensional world.

I bet a lot of you also play a musical instrument...or did at one time.

By the way, nice work on your site. Interesting cross-over between hard and soft sculpture. And with things tied together with ribbon..I see "Systems."

[WernerStudio]

Oddist, I think you are right about the "system" aspect. I'm really good at dealing with them, whether it's a computer or some other organized system. These days, I spent a large portion of my studio time figuring out the engineering of my sculpture pieces. I'm not good with musical instruments, however.

Thanks for the nice comments about my work. Those "ribbons" are actually quilts; they're just shaped and used a little differently than most.

Interestingly, I met Russ RuBert this May because his wife is a very talented quilt artist and he was with her at an opening reception for a show that was displaying a piece of her work. The reception happened to be in conjunction with a national conference of art quilters, where I was told by several people that I was no longer a quilt artist, but a sculptor. Russ suggested that I look at joining the ISC, which is why I'm here now. Isn't it wonderful how these things work out?

Jill Rumoshosky Werner

[oddist]

Jill,

I used the term "Ribbon" metaphorically, like a "ribbon of a highway."

It is interesting though that something that narrow can be considered a quilt.

Just goes to show that the materials available to an sculptor are many.

[GaryR52]

I bet a lot of you also play a musical instrument...or did at one time.

Yep. That seems to be a common thread for most creative types. I, myself, have played several instruments over the course of some 40 years (guitar, drums, various percussion, wood flutes, piano, mandolin, cello, harmonica, clarinet, alto saxophone, cornet, trumpet) and these days, I play electronic keyboards and synthesizers and compose and record New Age electronic music, after having run the gamut from rock, blues, bluegrass and jazz to where I am today. All by ear, incidentally.

You can hear a little of my recent music (shameless self-promotion, here) at:
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/garyrea


Gary

[stow-away]

I am a metal sculptor. I tend to do everything with my left hand (what doesn't require both hands)... my mom says it is because when I was learing to write and color I was too busy sucking on my right thumb. It seems I barely have enough control to use a fork with my right hand though interestingly enough I have recently noticed I paint with my right hand....figure that one out will ya!

[GWayne]

I'm a "Righty" and a "Lefty". ;)

[arcdawg]

Im a lefty......

being left handed is either great or it sucks depending on what your doing.
Its neat to hear about the 2d/3d ....I always wondered why I only make *flat pieces*......

its also a good excuse for when the chit hits the fan. dont blame me.......
Im left handed :D :D :D


Im not slow.........Im just left handed :eek:

ROCK ON LEFTIES !

dawg

[Lunarburn]

ambidex 4tw :D

[G. Murdoch]

Greetings all, great thread.

I'm right handed, always preffered math, physics, and chemistry in high school to other "soft" subjective subjects. Didn't have any understanding of, affiliation for, or even any interest in art at all until my mid twenties. I'll try to make a long story short: My friend Dave (with an educational background in mathematics and bio-chemistry) became inspired, then obsessed by drawing in his 30s. I met him when he was 38. He was drawing Degas and Carravagio, and we would talk about art. Since both of us had strong math skills we tended to talk about "visual physics". Through the course of many conversations with Dave I began to suspect I might possess some artistic ability. I started carving stone. What happened within me during my third sculpture is very difficult to describe. I was carving my daughter and her mother together in a composition I called "JOY". It felt as though my brain was absolutely electrified by the mixture of "visual physics" and profound emotion. Vectors and love. Balance and tenderness. Proportion and pride. Mass and care.

Since then I have often noted a unique "brain buzz" phenomena occuring while I am composing figures and shapes in my mind as I rotate (or walk around, depending on scale) the actual stone in my hands.

My theory on this is that the Corpus Collosum (the structure that joins right and left hemispheres together) is at its most active during this demanding proccess, where everything I've got as a thinking and feeling human being is directed towards one theme, idea, composition, form. All available resources, analytical and emotional, going flat out at once, makes for heavy synaptic traffic through the old Corpus Collosum, thus the buzz.

Graham

[kathleenfen]

Hey Graham,

Your post is very interesting. I confess to being a math & science junkie, although have always been creative in some way since I was a child at the same time. Now, I'm interested to know more about the "brain buzz" phenomena you mention...really interesting to think about both hemispheres of the brain functioning as you've described. I'm trying to think about what I experience and really am at a loss for words to describe it other than to say that everything moves in harmony in this incredible flow that's quite a rush. Hmmmm.... :cool:

Kathleen

[ironman]

Hi Graham, I think that's the right side of the brain doing the creating while the left side does the critiquing. They both must interract for a work of art to be created.
I tried an interesting (to me) experiment once.
I tried to make a sculpture using only the right side of my brain. First of all, it was very hard to keep the left side from interfering, the piece didn't turn out very well, but the strangest thing was the feelings that I had while working on the piece. I felt very uncomfortable and troubled. I had to fight really hard to keep that left side of the brain from critiquing what I was doing.
I was trying to make a sort of "improv" piece, like jazz or a Jackson Pollack, but what it showed me was that even "free flow" work is done with both sides of a "trained mind"
operating in sync.
Have a nice day,
Jeff

[G. Murdoch]

Kathleen, Jeff,

Greetings. My formal education is in Traditional Chinese Medicine. In addition to studying Chinese Medical Theory and all of its practical applications, the cirriculum included anatomy, physiology, and pathology (Western Science style). One thing I found fascinating was that the Corpus Collosum is usually about twice as large in women as it is in men, thus females tend to display more balanced thinking, whereas men tend to display extremes.

Regarding leftties 2D and righties 3D, perhaps this is due to the fact that unlike drawing and painting, sculpture demands both spatial awareness and practical engineering. To render 3 dimentional objects requires more analytical thought.

Graham

[Jay Long]

nothing magical about being a lefty or a righty, It is a matter of choice, and it all starts by choice, and you can choose to do what ever you do with one hand, with the other hand. at any age. If it is true that when you use one hand, then you use the opposite side of your brain, and that if you use the left side, you have these qualitys, and if you use the right side, you have other qualitys, then this is cool. now anybody can have these qualitys by choice. Exercise your brain, I like it. Jay Long

[HappySculpting]

Hi all,

Another "righty" here. I primarily sculpt realistic forms and not abstract.

-Tamara

[ilona]

Heh- I thought this was going to be another political discussion. :p

I am right handed. My boyfriend is left handed. We are both creative, although I personally think he is more technical and logical minded than me.

I once took a test that measured which side of the brain I utilized more, and it said I am a 'whole brainer' meaning I use both sides about equally.

Most days I feel more like a 'half-brainer' but what can you do.

[woodmobius]

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My understanding of right brain/left brain is that what matters is your dominant vs your non-dominant hemisphere. For about 90% of righties, and 70% of lefties, your dominant hemisphere is the opposite side of the brain from your dominant hand. But, at any rate, your more creative hemisphere is your non-dominant hemisphere, whichever hand is dominant. So, for the majority of lefties, the creative hemisphere is the left hemisphere. How do you find out which is your dominant hemisphere? Take a sheet of paper and roll it into a tube. Hold it out at arm's length, and look through it at some small thing across the room. Close one eye. Do it now. I'll wait.

Okay. (I hope you went and did it.) If, when you closed one eye, the one still open is the one looking through the tube at the object, that's your dominant hemisphere. This is one of those things you have to sneak up on. Anyway, more lefties than righties are cross dominant (same side of brain as hand is dominant). Cross-dominant people tend to have sloppier handwriting. I'm a lefty, I'm cross-dominant, and my handwriting is sloppy.

Hi Boys & Girls, In the world of creativity there seems to be a lot of lefthanded people, more so than in the general population. I once took a drawing class with 18 people in it, 16 of them were lefthanded. We lefties are predominately "right brained", which is considered the creative side SO, I'd be curious as to how many lefties as opposed to righties we have out there in cyberspace and how you feel that affects your work?
I'm a lefty, and I approach my work on a more intuitive (right brain) than cerebral (left brain) level. One problem with that is trying to explain, in words, what one has wrought by a process that doesn't include any. David Smith said something to the effect that "there were no words in the doing so why should there be words in the explaining?"
Of course the left brain plays some role in all of this, but I think that role is minimal.
Any thoughts on this subject?
Have a great day,
Jeff :D

[Ries]

Because I am not sure I could get it back together, I am unwilling to take apart my head to see which side is dominant. So I cant answer this question fully, but I am right handed.

[anatomist1]

I would urge caution upon anyone taking this pop-psychology level of speculation about left-brain/right-brain too seriously. To start with, there is no such thing as a person who is so dominant in one side that they can be called "right-brained" or "left-brained" unless they've had one hemisphere of their brain surgically removed.

There is certainly no known connection between some kind of state of overall hemispheric dominance (since it doesn't exist) and which dominant hand is used. Although scientists have discovered dominance of one side or the other in certain types of mental functions, neuromotor functions that are strict to each side take place in an entirely different, 'lower' lobe of the brain. It has been found that left and right handed peoples' brains divide up relative dominance for specialized functions differently, but higher functions are almost all shared by the two halves to some extent, via the corpus callosum, and the relative dominance varies widely from task to task, even in one individual. The only exceptions are people missing half their brain or their corpus callosum.

If you are really interested in this, you should get books, but here are a couple links with some basic info:

http://www.singsurf.org/brain/rightbrain.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_brain

What I've said may sound like a bunch of technicalities, but I think you should really look into the current scientific consensus on this before taking such speculation to the point of believing it means something about who you are or what you are capable of. I especially advise you not to waste money on any kind of books, tests, or "educational" programs peddling anything related to it.

[Studioinde]

I was born with the ability to use both hands equally. In school, I was taught to be a righty, at least as far as writing goes. I still do many things with my left, like throw a frisbee. It is useful to be able to use both hands when using tools, especially if you are up on scaffolding, since you can reach both ways (you have to move the scaffold much less). Also if you are in confined spaces, you can switch if its easier to reach with one as opposed to the other. Because of the writing thing, my right hand is stronger and more confident, but I enjoy switching while I draw, to get a "fresh" perspective.

[RCFA-Raven]

This is kind of interesting and fun project.

I peeped through the rolled up paper with my left eye. I am right handed but write with a left hander's back slant that I have actually tried to change to the traditional right handered slant but can't for some reason. I've been told my hand writing is quite unique and beautiful and can be spotted from a stack of nameless papers from both lefties and righties. (I don't consider it beautiful, just unique.)

[HappySculpting]

Annette-

That sounds like some interesting handwriting. How cool.

I'm right handed and for me, when I tried the test, I could see through it with my left eye. So I guess that means my left side of the brain is dominant. But I have to agree with what anatomist says and not to take all this stuff too seriously. It's fun to take the little test though. ;)

-Tamara

[David Aponte]

Hi Lefty with Dyslexic. and that why I took up sculpture. Would like to start a
class, for the younsters with dyslexic some day. :)

[Nina Florence]

Hi,

Another LEFTY and Dyslexic (thank god for spell check) BUT a 3D artist.
My hubby is a knife maker and is also a LEFTY. I think my 4yr old little girl is right handed, although I have seen her on occasion use her left. It will be interesting to see what my 2yr old boy will be? Still up in the air about the whole brain thing!! :confused:

[mark pilato]

Im a righty and Dyslexic. I Talked to four of my friends who are artist and they to are righty's but luckly for them they are not Dyslexic.
all the best,
Mark

[furby]

i'm right handed, but use mainly my left to sculpt (modelling). i use both, but the left does the most & works the best. i use the right for the hack work so the left can conserve some energy for the good bits.

[inferno221]

hey guys and gals

another righty here, though when in a tight situation with hard to reach areas i sometimes use my left to mimmic the fur on my dogs. though that is about all the left is used for, as a last resort.

[Miteri,Manjul]

dear sir
I m Lefty. and it never effects me but my known friends say to me lefty is talented.

[anotherdreamer]

I write and draw with my right but use my left a lot for sculpting. I drive my car lefty too but I don't know if that means anything. I've also taken a few of the brain dominance tests online and they have all said I'm equal.

[cmustard]

King David was a lefty. This gave him an advantage in his battle with Goliath. Kind of like facing a left handed pitcher.