Perspective+Drawing ackwardly?

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OPk first let me say I LOVE to draw, however I have NVLD and that makes drawing hard(visually spatially Im screwed, so perspective is really hard to draw). As such I draw ackwardly, yet beautifally according to almost every art teacher Ive had. I just draw things without really picturing them and it somehow turns out.( I draw what I feel?) I start in the middle, sometimes go up and down, instead of working my way up(every art teacher has said that starting at the bottom is "normal", and drawing while pictureing what your going to draw, or having a picture in front of you is "normal").

Ive been drawing the same as described up above since I was little, and no art teacher could really "help" me. (They want me to draw "normally").

So Im wondering does anyone else draw like me? ( I MIGHT post some things on here).

Also I like painting, and paint by numbers(i think its called that). Does anyone else like doing that?

I sometimes do this.

But I haven't drawn anything recently, so I have no idea if I still do.

I absolutely suck at art.

I never realized that you were supposed to draw from the bottom up. I have always drawn from the top down. My perspective is bad and so is my anatomy. I'm a pretty mediocre artist; my true strength lies in writing, or so I've been told. I'd give anything to be a talented artist, because my attention span is too short to write books and I am a primarily visual thinker.

yeah, I always draw from the top down. I've heard some people suggest starting at the bottom before though.

I always draw from the middle out. I didn't discover I had a talent for drawing until 2-3 years ago. I feel like something in my brain changed around that time. What, I don't know, but it just seems like it. There are other things I am good at now that I wasn't good at before.

I don't draw from the top or bottom. I plot out the corners, then fill them in with lines. For example, if I'm doing a landscape with some mountains, I'll put the horizon in first, then dot out where the peaks are, then I'll join the dots. After that, who knows where I might concentrate on next. I actually don't ever spend much time on my drawing, before getting the paints out.

For me the process is a little different, depending on what exactly it is I'm drawing. For a human figure in a standard pose, I almost always begin with the head first. I was trained to do that, and so were most of my fellow students at art school, because using the head as a base metric is one of the most elementary ways of measuring out the proportions of the figure accurately. I know artists who draw figures as being 7 or 8 "heads" tall. Generally, mine are more like 6-- the bottom of the second head-length down is mid-chest, and the third is the underside of the crotch, and the legs account for the other three head-lengths. Once I get the proportions marked, I block in the figure, first in a line skeleton, then I add mass, and once I'm sure all the proportions are as accurate as possible, only then do I actually begin the work of rendering.

If I'm drawing a non-standard pose with drastic foreshortening, however-- for example, if the model is lying down so that the soles of her feet are toward me-- the rule of thumb is to begin with the front-most part of the anatomy and gradually work away from the foreground. This same approach also gets used frequently when I'm working on subject matter that isn't human.

With the ways teachers have taught I wound up frustrated and never coming back for a future class. My teachers couldnt figure out that theyre teaching style wasnt right for me and blamed it on me. Oh well I like drawing regardless.

Heres a nother question though, anyone else like forming things with clay? Like as in clay dishes, animals etc? I seem to have a natural knack for that