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Sooo... which hand do/can you draw with?
Lonnehart at 7:10AM, June 3, 2007
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Long ago, before Drunkduck went sober and disappeared from the net, I was doing pretty good drawing Magiversity. I drew (and still draw) primarily with my right hand. Then one day while at work I got beaten up with a metal pipe, and my right hand was broken. At first I figured I could take a break from drawing, but after a few days the fact that I couldn't draw was driving me crazy... crazy enough to start drawing with my left hand.

Now I can draw with my left hand. It's just not as good, and it takes quite a lot of mental effort. Maybe I should practice more... :)
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deletedbyrequest03 at 1:10PM, June 3, 2007
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I'm just left handed. With everything.

This year, school's full of BS!!!
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snark at 10:59PM, June 3, 2007
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Lefty all the way.

On a side note however, I can play tennis equally with either hand though my playing style is markedly different depending on which hand I'm using (I'm serve volley/one handed backhand when left handed and I play baseline/two handed backhand when using my right)
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Peipei at 11:22PM, June 3, 2007
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I can draw with my feet, but yea, I'm right handed :3
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SarahN at 11:44PM, June 3, 2007
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I draw and write with my left hand...but do everything else with my right. O.o
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ozoneocean at 1:02AM, June 4, 2007
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I could quote people and turn this thread into something rude... But that's too predictable ^_^
I draw with my right, use the mouse with my left... So if I'm doing digital art I use both hands, but for different things. I use my left hand so much for doing things these days I sometimes forget which is which though... My left hand is my aiming/flying/shooting hand in all computer games, that helps with dexterity (or should I say "sinisterity?" lol! )

Ya, I get more "sinister" as I age.

My right hand is my prime drawing hand by I can see the left taking over in the event of an accident like your's Lonnehart.
 
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usedbooks at 6:08AM, June 4, 2007
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Right hand. I'm helpless with my left hand (I write better with my foot than my left hand.)

I often turn my pages sideways or upside-down when drawing.
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Eunice P at 8:21AM, June 4, 2007
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My right hand is the precision hand. I can't even hold a pencil with my left.
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dueeast at 9:06AM, June 4, 2007
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I draw with my right hand. I only seem to like to drive with my left hand.
Allen S., co-author/artist
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silentkitty at 9:32AM, June 4, 2007
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Right. My left hand is basically an organic paperweight, I'm completely useless with it.
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LIZARD_B1TE at 10:29AM, June 4, 2007
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I'm a righty... I'm such an uninteresting person.
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Eviltwinpixie at 10:30AM, June 4, 2007
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Oh goodness, I use both hands so much in making my comic. I use my left hand to do the pencils and use my graphics tablet. I do a lot of stuff with the mouse, and for that I use my right hand, and I use whichever hand I'm not using for something else to hit keyboard shortcuts. :)

Often I'll have the pen of my graphics tablet in my left hand and the mouse in my right at the same time, and not even realise I'm doing it. ^_^
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skoolmunkee at 12:18PM, June 4, 2007
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I gotta learn this two-handed comic thing. I use my left hand for hotkeys and shift-ing but geez, you two-handers sound like robots. Or like that scene from Ghost in the Shell with the robot typists who had 100 fingers...
   IT'S OLD BATMAN
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patrickdevine at 7:08PM, June 4, 2007
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I typically use my right, though if I have a hard time drawing something or performing a precise task I'll try doing it with my left. Usually doing a worse job but I'm usually better than ever when I switch back to my right. My Father is left-handed and wanted me to be left-handed too so I took up my weird hand-switching ritual from him. At the very least I'm better with my left hand than most righties.
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Anatak at 3:15AM, June 5, 2007
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Right hand, only... I draw better with a mouse with my right hand than any way I can draw with my left lol... I could probably draw better with my feet than with my left hand.

I so wish to be ambidextrious.
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Generic Human at 10:20AM, June 5, 2007
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left handed all the way. It was a hard road for me to colour with a mouse because I use my right hand for my mouse. Yikes. I can't think of anything I do with my right hand except shift gears. I even have to turn the analogs around in halo.
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Deviant Lynx at 10:24AM, June 5, 2007
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Ambidex kiddies...ambidex :3 both hands all the way. Color on the comp with the right, draw with the left. Both do very excelent. When I first started drawing I could only use my right, I then began practicing with my left, after 5 years I was capable of multitasking with both lol ^-^

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that kid yellow at 4:01PM, June 5, 2007
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i draw wit my right and i dribble a basketball wit my left alot.
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Roguehill at 1:10PM, June 7, 2007
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CIVIL WAR!!

I'm with the RIGHT!

Hehe...

GHOST ZERO
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MetalLuigi at 3:05AM, June 9, 2007
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Lefties are awesome. There's only ten of them in the world. I'm serious.

Which side of the brain was the most creative? Right or left? Can't remember. Judging from the quality of my posts I'd say right but just to be sure :P
My two comics: Bob the Alien and Tom the Turkey
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Flamen Tenebrarum at 4:44AM, June 10, 2007
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I'm ambidextrous. I mostly write with my right hand and usually I draw with my right and erase with my left, type with both but mainly with my left, I do magic with my left hand and everything else with doesn't matter which. Sometimes I draw with my left hand however. When it's more comfortable that way or when my right hand is tired or just that's the hand that was closer to the pencil at that moment.
Why, nothing has happened to me. I am the one happening here.
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gigafelz at 9:22AM, June 10, 2007
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I draw with my right hand but all my erasing is with my left... it's pretty important to line structure for me so I guess that counts. That's just what I'm finding works with computer art.
Everybody wants that fold of matches to reinflate their confidence.
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Hguyver at 12:27PM, June 10, 2007
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I'm right handed in everything. I once tried using my left... It wasn't a pretty sight...
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Red Slayer at 6:13PM, June 11, 2007
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I draw with my right, i could never draw with the left, i would end up with these things that looked like a kid's doodles.
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marine at 11:27AM, June 12, 2007
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For my comics, I only use a crappy mouse (which I have on top of a dvd/video game case, currently its GTA 3). and I use the left hand to draw penis characters. Most of the cutting and pasting I use the right, but the creation of new characters is the left. I usually write with the right one, but the left one makes stuff funnier looking.
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Kristen Gudsnuk at 4:55PM, June 12, 2007
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I think I've answered the question.
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mlai at 1:17PM, June 14, 2007
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I use left hand to draw.

Uses right hand for mouse, including CG clean-up work.

Right side brain is the creative side. Since hand crosses side when going over to brain, left-handed ppl use the right side of brain.

FIGHT current chapter: Filling In The Gaps
FIGHT_2 current chapter: Light Years of Gold
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Hijuda at 3:19PM, June 14, 2007
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Man, you ambidextrous people... Makin' me feel like such a noob.

I draw with my right hand all the way, but I hit keyboard shortcuts with my left.
It's a comic!

LOLOL LAMFAO
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SeriousQuiche at 7:29AM, June 27, 2007
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Left handed. VERY VERY Left handed. About the only thing my right is good for is holding a ruler steady.
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SteveMyers22 at 11:50AM, June 27, 2007
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Roguehill
CIVIL WAR!!

I'm with the RIGHT!

Hehe...


World War Duck!

"Puny Drawings, Right Hand has come to smash!"

/em holds up Black Bolt ...

"I'll overink your entire stinking planet!"
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