Art and ADD/ADHD | ADHD Information

I agree totally---when I sculpt I always have a picture in my mind that gets me started---but the piece seems to come to life and take in a personality I could have never pictured it my head---the vision is only the beginning.Just draw, work with what shows up.
It doesn't need to be a photographic reproduction of the image in your mind

I agree with KIDD, and the BABE. I seem to get really good things that I want to draw in my head and when I try to draw them, they don't come out the way I want them to.  Drawing and ADD/ADHD are good creative things together, but getting the ideas on paper and how to is the hard part. There were so many things in art class that were taught, that at the time I didn't comprehend. For instance, still life drawings or portraits mine didn't look as good but it's kinda hard for me to have to draw and concentrate on something at the same time. I feel like I have more freedom if I can draw from my imagination and they're mostly cartoons. I've never had a problem with it. But, I think those around me wouldn't mind seeing other stuff besides what I've been drawing since childhood. I like to not change things, but I guess I have to sometimes.

I was the only kid in my high school to fail art every year!  We had this hippie teacher too - always stoned and still - because I couldn't seem to get concepts on page, or especially anything 3-D, he would fail me.  Was very frustrating.

I still have trouble with spacial acuity.  I can't see something and place it on the page.  It just gets lost from mind to page.  I can imagine in my head dimensions just fine - I read about multiple dimensions in space and they show up the way I imagine them just fine.  But just to make a pic of a table seems like pure torture.

I always ended up either making an ashtray (teacher was gonna scream!) or I skipped class out of frustration.  I was hoping my meds would cure it but it seems the wiring just isn't there.  It's not a big deal as I never got into anything needing drawing but would have been nice to sketch, or to sculpt.  Oh well.