i’m right hander, but i do not use any emisphere of my brain… i just listen to my stomach!
i do almost everything left handed. we lefties are the only ones that are in our “right” minds! 
when using a tablet, i draw with my left hand, but i do use the mouse with my right hand, just because i got used to it after a while. but other than that i am pretty much a pure lefty. i enjoy being a lefty, but sometimes it can get frustrating in a right handed world. interesting research kircho!
artboy
i’m righthanded, almost exeption among zbrushers :eek:
Interesting question.
A few years ago, I started using the mouse with my left hand (I’m naturally right handed) to aleviate stress from always using it on the right.
I found that after a while, it felt just as natural as using the right. The added bonus was that I could have my drawing tablet on the right. This way, I could switch off easily as needed.
But—and I can’t prove this-- another benefit is that I really feel that using my left hand more is stimulating my brain in possitve ways.
Another muddled one here. I eat left-handed but write with my right, throw with my left but catch with both left and right, and do other things happily with either.
I agree with Ken; forcing yourself to do all sorts of things with both hands, not just drawing or creative, will likely help to train and exercise different parts of the brain, from which you can then reap the benefits.
I am a complete right hander, I do everything with it. I even use it to pick my nose. I feel slightly handicapped if forced to use my left hand.
Playing the piano I can clearly feel the difference in control I have over my left and right hand. But if I succumb to a videogaming session (which I do fairly often) I find my left hand has noticeably benefitted from it, albeit for a short period of time. Go figure.
Needless to say I always have an intense videogaming session before showing of my piano skills to someone. Theres a “crappy” missing somewhere in that last sentence, I think the right side of my brain censored it 
This left-right brain thing is described excellently in a book aimed at drawing; “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” by Betty Edwards.
I’m octopus …
Hm, very interesting post.
Ken, hush up about forcing yourself to use your left hand (well, it is you doing the enforcement). Read further.
I am a right handed person in everything I do, I feel absolutely no real control over my left hand at all. I can’t even pick my nose with my left hand
But as a child I was forced to use my right hand instead of my left hand (I naturally used my left hand then) because of what was written above (yes, they knew this back then too), and my parents did not want me to be professionless, so they forced me to do everything with my right hand.
But what is interesting is that it did not stiffle my artistic side. And even though I am good at a lot of things (but learn the hard way), I believe that forcing the right handedness on me did improve my abilities in learning what most people learn for a living. But I never truely enjoyed it. I have always enjoyed the artistic side of me, but to this day I am still right handed…um, and I am a very bad writter, as no one can read my name when I sign things
Parents want what is best for their children, not realizing that the artistic side also helps you in the logical side of the brain. Imaginative ways of solving problems (thank God I still have that :D)
So Ken, I guess it is alright that you force yourself to use your left hand, since you are doing the enforcement…
Ron, I always knew you were a barbarian at heart, Lordy I love barbarians, they are so sloppy.
Many Blessings
PS. Many of you are ambidexturous and dont know it.
Ken…when you said “I really feel that using my left hand more is stimulating my brain in positive ways”, may be true
BUT…I found drawing negative space very stimulating to the artistic side of me.
Why not try that?
Many Blessings
me— righthanded. Funny thing: I can write with the left tentakel, and the scribbling looks 90% like done with the right - only it is mirrored.
There is some use for the left after all :D: I am playing some stringed instruments for some 50 years now, and there the left does the important job while the right sometimes is having trouble to catch up with the movement of the left.
So Now 25 % of Left-handed and one Octopus
Fouad is an Alien
Pilou
Im left handed… I do everything with my left hand… Except I use the mouse in my right hand probably 70% of the time to draw my ZBrush stuff… The pad is on the right side, and I just grew accustom to surfing the internet right handed and I guess it filtered into my drawing… But I still cant write or do anything outside of using the mouse, right handed.
Scissors suck if youre left handed… Some cameras do because I want to use my left eye… So does using a circular saw… I even have the tendency to flip through magazines in the store from the rear to the front.
I remember reading that book TVeyes years back in school, or at least I THINK it was that book (someone straighten me out if Im wrong) :)… Something I always found interesting is how the book explained to turn a photo upside down and try drawing a copy of a photo that way… Instead of seeing what you were actually drawing and recognizing it, say a horse for example… Youre forced to only draw the outline of shapes… Once you turned the drawing right side up, it looked close to the photo… Good for people who arent that great at drawing.
I use my feet.
Interesting thread …
I’m strongly right-handed (never forced to be that way), but both brothers are left-handed
Like Ron, I switch hands for eating depending on the seating arrangements
I might have to try Ken’s idea of mouse on the left and tablet on the right
Admittedly I type more than I make art, but most of the high-frequency letters are on the left, so maybe my brain gets a little mixed from that 
At work (computer-support guy) I do stock neutral mice for the people in our dept
i’m left handed but i use the right hand too,except for writing cause this looks very ugly and no one can read what i wrote with the right hand inclusive me.
Thanks for all the replies guys , as I was expecting a high number of people are naturally left handed or once were and now mix between both worlds as a way of adjusting to the forced change. I think its shows very well that the theory that I’ve presented on my first post is quite significant .
Thanks for everyones input it has been great to here your opinions and stories.
Btw as a matter of interest for some people, in conern as to an answer to why in past years parents have converted there children from left handedness to right handedness , I think its intersting to point out that apart from the majority of the population writing in with the right hand the left hand is percieved to be some what evil or generally frouned upon more so in past times.
For example in when I was small my mother told me to always sleep on my right side as to keep the good angel which resides it.
There is also anumber of sayings such as:
" Right hand man"
And the fact that at formal dinners the ohour guest always sits on the right of the host.
All I think the words left and right in latin and french , to my knowledge have negative meanings towards the word left.
Interesting is’nt it…it would be intersting to know where it all started why and how the left hand has such a bad name in society :)?
All the best and happy holidays
Kircho
I’m sure some theories would say it has something to do with ablutions and accepted practices for eating without utensils
Drawing with a photo up-side down. NOW that one I have to try. I can see where that would FORCE a person to look at things differently, whereas with the photo right side up, you know it is a head, and you have knowledge of what you put in the head. But with it upside down, you have to think and work at seeing the details (even the minute ones), and this does force you to use the artistic side (since what you are seeing does not make sense to you). It is probablly a better techinique (or equal) to negative space drawing.
Many Blessings
A little dyslexic point of view. First, I am naturaly drawn to flip through magazines back to front. When I carve stone, I hold my chisel with my left hand and strike with my hammer using the right. All my CG work is right handed. But as I was reading through these posts, I was also thinking about how I model clay(plastacine not the CG stuff ) I know for a fact, that I use my left hand to create the majority of the detail and surface(models are almost always very smooth). Now thinking back to my stone carving, which hand is really doing the work (detail). Yeah, my right(dominant) hand is the driving force, to remove the stone, but if it were not for my left hand in part directing that force, I would likely smash my piece into pieces, hahaa. I have been told, that at a young age I had no preferance for either hand, and that one day I just chose one. I am bad at writting left handed, but there are just certain things I can do better with my left, than my right.
I have heard Lucifer aka the devil was left handed and that may have something to do with sitting at the right hand of God…so I guess maybe the right hand was righteous or something…or higher prestige in the heavenly hierarchy. Just some thoughts on the subject.