Introduction
Why People Draw
Drawing makes your brain happy.
When you draw, you are using multiple brain regions. Your frontal lobe kicks into action providing reasoning, planning, movement, emotions, and problem solving. Your parietal lobe provides movement and orientation, recognition, perception of stimuli; your occipital lobe delivers visual processing; your temporal lobe, perception and memory; and your cerebellum, additional movement.
When you draw, you are concentrating, allowing the rewarding neurotransmitter dopamine to flow. Some people report feelings of calm. Others say drawing allows them to keenly focus.
Drawing entertains many of us.
Drawing is a way to make sense of one’s self in the world, a way to relate to others and to explore ...
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