When we are viewing something with our ‘left brain’ we see in symbols of how we think things ‘ought’ to look (our schema) which hinders us drawing things as they really are. On drawing upside down Edwards notes: "For reasons that are still unclear, the verbal system immediately rejects the task of “reading” and naming upside-down images. L-mode seems to say, in effect, “I don’t do upside down. It’s too hard to names things seen this way, and, besides, the world isn’t upside down so why should I bother?” On the other hand, the visual system seems not to care. Right side up, upside down, it’s all interesting visually, perhaps even more interesting upside down because R-mode [Right Brain] is free of interference from its verbal partner, which is often in a “rush to judgement” or, at least, a rush to recognize and name.
1. Turn to a clean page in your sketchbook and draw a line that separates the paper horizontally.
2. Scroll and zoom into the image so you can just see the top 1/2 of the drawing. Faithfully reproduce the lines, shapes and spaces of the image on the top half of your sketchbook page. When you're finished with the top half, reveal the entire image (or just the bottom half) and draw the rest of the picture on the bottom half of your page.