Question for the autistic artists on here - struggling with observing details, I see too many

Hi, 

I have been drawing for quite a long time, but recently since letting all my masks down and not suppressing parts of my autism I have begun to struggle with observation skills. 

I see so much detail and it comes in all at the same "volume" and all the time. It has become so distracting that I can't break things down into basic shapes and shadows to build the first steps of my drawings. It is hard to also see the object as an overall thing, I get stuck on the details within in it. It is so overwhelming that I just stare at my paper get really anxious and then give up. 

I have tried things like grid drawing - perhaps my grid squares are too large?

I realise being able to see the detail is a good thing, but is there any methods anyone has worked out to get around it when it is too much. Harness it in a positive way as it were?

I know some of it will be practice but I am going round in circles (actually mostly shading spheres at the moment).

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  • Hi Lima

    not an artist myself, but autist...how much is realistic representation important to you? Your eye for detail is interesting... how about a representation of a tiny detail or the mass of shifting shapes that don’t want to be captured.

    below is a link to the Aspie art collection at the Saatchi gallery 

    https://www.saatchiart.com/paintings/aspergers/feature

  • Thanks for replying. I'm not going for photorealism but not really into creating extremely abstract pieces. Some of the pieces in the gallery look interesting!

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  • Thanks for replying. I'm not going for photorealism but not really into creating extremely abstract pieces. Some of the pieces in the gallery look interesting!

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