Aspies who can draw or paint?

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Aspies are supposed to have poor fine motor skills, according to the original diagnosis by Hans Asperger.

Can any aspies say they were good at drawing or painting when they were a kid? or now? If so what do you do portraits or landscapes?

i like to think...i'm pretty decent

i post my stuff here every so often. pretty sure the bad fine motor skills thing is a stereotype

I do. As a child and even now.
And could do either/both adequately.



... But I'm also an aspie who happened not to have any fine motor issues.
Except for the handwritings apparently.

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A lot of Aspies can draw or paint. I think the poor fine motor skills thing is more common in Aspies with dyspraxia, otherwise I don't think it's a significant trait of autism.

I've always liked drawing but I've always rushed at it and missed the details. But I'm much better at drawing if I am copying something.

I can't. Every time I attempt to draw I usually end up upsetting everyone who sees my work because it's that bad.

I'm dyspraxic and I can cos I work at it and I care to work at it.

That said, it's probably pretty childish.

Art can be subjective, though.

Some autistic people are amazing savants when it comes to art! I remember reading about some guy who could go to a city ONCE and draw it detail for detail as if he was someone who lived there all his life! And some other autistic guy who made an entire country up in his head, he drew it out and drew every single detail of the building like all the residents of all the flats etc.

Autistic adults are often still very imaginative.

My drawing and painting ability is probably at a 6-7 year old level. My pdoc at my 1st psych assessment here in Wiltshire said I was 'Quite dyspraxic'

Simply put, no I can't. I could plausibly claim otherwise by using the "art is subjective" defense, but I'd have to milk it for everything it's got. OTOH I somehow managed to draw a very cute donkey at school when I was about 8 years old, and there's been the odd hint of talent here and there among my numerous naff attempts at the craft, so maybe I could have developed it into something. My art teacher at school hardly ever taught anything apart from the use of light and shade to make the picture look solid. The rest of the time he'd just tell us to draw something and then he'd give us marks according to how good or bad he thought it was, but he didn't explain what was right or wrong with it except when he told me my work was scruffy.

Still, I always enjoyed drawing and painting as a cathartic exercise. I'd like to do more, but like a lot of things I'll probably not find the time for it.

I can paint pretty well and have sold some paintings online. I find portraits the hardest though. I do landscapes, still lifes and if I paint people it’s usually a figure drawing.

Re: fine motor skills, I tend to find ways to steady my hand so that I don't have to be accurate all the way through my body. This serves me well in making things as well as in sketching them first.

Almost majored in art. Was always considered above my age in drawing ability.

I was always reasonably good at art as a kid, above average anyway. As an adult I still draw sometimes, but just do mostly abstract stuff, and I don't do it very often...but enjoy it a lot when I do. This was an old little doodle I did with a pen, like...idk, 7-8 years ago. Some more recent stuff I don't have uploaded anywhere currently.

I don't know if I count here, I wasn't diagnosed with aspergers, but pdd-nos. But I can draw and paint ok enough. I like doing both of those thing quite a bit and always have. As a child, I was considered only slightly above average, but as a teen I had some stuff out in a showcase thing because my teacher thought they were good enough for that.

I don't much care for portraits or landscapes in a traditional sense. I'm more into abstract or lowbrow art type stuff. I also do a lot of mandalas. Most recently, I've been painting a ukulele. But I prefer pen to paint any and every day of the week.

I've always been good at fine motor skills (painting, drawing, etc), but terrible at gross motor skills (running, catching a ball, not falling over because I tripped for no apparent reason, etc).

I think the "poor motor skills" is only for ASD with problems involving perception of positions of objects in space and motion of object.

I don't think it's a very common trait though for those on the aspie end of the spectrum. (don't quote me on that)