Originally Posted by
bearisgray
Things also look
different from 10 feet away as compared to18 inches away.
Talkng pictures can also be helpful. Seems like a camera has a different filter from our eyes and brain.
I use my camera extensively. Years ago I had someone in a class tell me to stand back and squint. The camera does the same thing and makes it easy for me to see things that I can't standing 3 foot from my design wall.
My husband is a draftsman. We have a business and over the last 30+ years and have hired a lot of people. He says that visualization ability seems to be something that some people have and others don't. It can be learned but there does seem to be an innate ability to know how things will look. I'm sometimes good at it and sometimes not. I still do a lot of practice blocks to see how things look.