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# Do you know why drop shadows run that way?
'cos artists have traditionally had the light coming over their left shoulder, so they can see the subject without their right hand*/ their own shadow getting the way...

*ok pedants, I know that lots of arty types are left handed, but there are still more right handed artists than left handed
(, Tue 16 Mar 2004, 19:53, archived)
# hey I'm left handed
so perhaps there is some reverse bigamy going on here.
(, Tue 16 Mar 2004, 19:57, archived)