Are you a right/left handed person? Are left handed persons good in drawing?

Hello Zearah. I am right-handed and I do draw and paint. But my oldest daughter is left-handed, and a very skilled nurse who can also draw well, knit, and has beautiful penmanship. Most of us are born with a natural skill for using one hand over the other, or even both hands equally well. While I respect your beliefs, I myself do not hold them, as both hands are equally important. One is not good and the other bad, for me :) Karen

i am right handed. my parents trained me to be...i heard somebody before saying that if a child is left handed he/she is not taught by his/her parents...but i don't think so... but maybe its true coz being right handed or left handed is something that we just learn and grew up with...if in our childhood days we used to use our left in writing and we are not corrected, then we will be comfortable with it until we grow up... about your belief, well that;s not new to me coz i also hear that from my grandparents...that's why they train us to use right... but to all left handed, well that;s what they want and they are comfortable with it so nothing's wrong...and its good that your friend can draw very well with his left...me, i always wanted to learn to write well with my left, but i just can't. i can write but it looks like a "chicken scratch" and can't even draw beautifully with my right...so i think your friend really have a good talent and skill...

hi Zearah, i am right handed, left handed is also a gods gift, they may do miracle with left hand, all the best to left handers

I'm left handed - but I'm not very good at drawing! I can scribble- does that count? =P People do compliment me for my neat handwriting, though I've met other lefties who are not-so-neat. What I've heard about lefties - they are creative and smart. ;-) Did you know that Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci were lefties? YEAP! Smart huh? That's why I'm proud to be a lefty. Though it's tough in this right-handed world. Something are just not made for us. That's why we're smart too though because we have to learn how to adapt from the get-go. Cheers!

I'm a left-handed guy, but I only use my left hand when I write or drawing. I'm good in drawing too. But in other activity like hand shaking and eating and etc. I use my right hand.

I am a right handed person and i dont know any person in my contact who is left handed. So i cant coment on this that left handed person are good in drwaing. I can guess that they will not be good in drawings.

I think the body language and style of a left handed person is really cool. I don't think that i know any left-handed person who has good sketching skills but they surely have skills. I have observed that a right handed person has a very less control over his left hand and leg but a left handed person pretty much has the same control of his right hand and leg as that of left. So its an advantage being a left handed..... your friend's mom should re- programme herself and think about the goods of being left handed....

I am right handed but I type with both of my hands so does that make me left handed and right handed? I'm good at drawing simple things, like flowers, people, houses, shapes. I'm also good at copying drawings, like copying drawings of cartoon characters in a comic book. Also, I can be creative if I want to.

I'm a LEFTIE!!!! And I must admit that my hand-writing is neat to be consider left-handed because my dad, who's also left handed, doesn't have neat handwriting!!! As for drawing, not so good, BUT I can crochet and do other arts and craft things,does that count???? Anyways I feel blessed to be a Leftie because we're rare and people tend to put us into stereotypes and we prove them wrong everytime. YEAAAA FOR LEFTIES!!!!!!!!

I'm totally left handed. Lol. I'm decent at drawing, but not really too good at writing. My hand writing kinda sucks. I don't think the hand you use really has much to do with it. I think you could be good at something eithe rway if you practice a lot. Lol.

I am right handed and I can not draw but I have been complimented on my penmenship. My brother-in-law is a lefty - his penmenship is horrible. I remember this one time when he and my sister were in college and he had to write a check for my sister because she was so sick. The check was for my mom, and when my mom received the check, she called my sister panicked because she thought that my sister must be horribly sick to be writing so horribly! LOL. But even though he gets an F in handwriting, he gets a B for artwork (and mathematics - he is a math teacher now). So that so far goes to prove your theory. HOWEVER - my boyfriend is a righty and he is the most amazing artist I have ever seen.

Hi, i'm a lefty. i do most of jobs with my left hand. my handwritings is really bad and i can't draw at all. always get C for my art class. but i'm quite good in mathematics. when i grow up, i always get scolded from my teacher just because i always raised my left hand when teacher asked a question. it's our culture here(maybe it's an Asian culture) that using a left hand for anything is considered improper. even if you want to get your balance from the cashier using the left hand, you should asked for apologize because you are using the left hand. other stuff such as, shake hand or receiving gift using a left hand is also considered a 'taboo'. but as a left handed, i cannnot help it. it is default. my left hand is like automatically move first if i want to get something from other person.sometimes i hate this kind of culture.

i'm a lefty and do most of my daily jobs(writing,eating,holding stuff,etc..) using my left hand. my mother is a left handed and i'm the only one in my siblings who is left handed. i cannot draw and my handwriting is not so neat. the theory about left handed people are good in handwriting and drawing seems like not applicable to me. i would like to share my experience growing up as a lefties kid. when i was in school, i always get scolded by my teacher because when she asked any question i will put up my left hand to answer. she thought that it is really impolite for me to raise my left hand. so i have to teach myself to put up my right hand. other situation like taking balance from the cashier or receiving anything from other person, it is really impolite if i'm using the left hand. i have to apologize immediately for doing so. that's how my culture treat the lefties. sometimes i think it is not fair because we, lefties can't help ourselves from using the left hand because the left hand is like automatically move faster than the right hand if we want to receive something from other people.

I'm a lefty and proud of it! I don't think lefties are better artists than righties, and I don't know many lefties that have legible penmanship. Maybe that's because we are taught from a right-handed perspective in school. I always thought they didn't know what to do with lefties when I was growing up. We had to learn to use right handed things, like scissors. As a result, I'm actually a bit ambidextrous. I had no idea that lefties were viewed differently in other cultures. That's very interesting. Which culture is this?

I'm left handed. I don't draw very well but do other things just fine. I have never heard of using the left hand for dirty jobs. Maybe this is why so many teachers used to try to get kids to use their right hands?

I am a right handed person. But yes there is feeling that right hand is some what precious for most of the people.. Thats left with sentiment of the people..I dont think a lefty has a special advantage of good drawing because of the hand he uses..I guess your friend is real talented and he is left is your observation.

Hello, I am right hand person, but only writing or doing something else... however, if I hold stuff or carry stuff then my left hand will step forward. I wash my secret part of my body with right hand tho, so that mean whoever that shake my hand will get all the poo??? lolz... just kidding. I used both hands. My dad is also both hands too, he write with right hand but doing something else with left hand... I dont know why but he is good with them so much.

Good day! my cousin is a left-handed and she happened to be a fine arts graduate and now employed as graphic artist. Her husband is a right-handed person and also a graduate of fine arts. both of them sometimes join exhibits at malls and usually conducting exhibit of their own masterpieces. I believe that passion for drawing doesn't got something to do with if you're a left-handed or right-handed. have a nice day!

That is awesome that one can draw with either hand. I can write with both hands, I use both with simple jobs. I also draw, though that is done with my right hand. I know those beliefs, thing is I don't feel that either hand should be singled out as being different from the other. Reason I say this is because no matter what country or religion you have bad people that do things with either hand. So why does one out weigh in the other when it comes to this? I don't believe there is a difference. Its the person not the hands that makes the difference.

i'm a left handed , i use my left hand because i broke my right arm when i was in primary school , i need to do my homework and eat so i practise to use my left hand , i u se my left hand until now, already use to it , old people here alway say that left handed people are more clever but not me , i'm not clever and i'm not good in drawing