Dyslexia: What should dyslexics do with their life? Vince Low – an artist who shows

Dyslexia is one of the most misunderstood learning disabilities and even less understood abilities which makes many dyslexics wonder – what should I do with my life?

If you ask famous dyslexics like Leonardo da Vinci, Picasso, Agatha Christie, Whoopie Goldberg, Tom Cruise, Stephen Spielberg, or Harry Belafonte, they’d all most likely say – find your passion in life.

For those unfamiliar with dyslexia, dyslexics have a hard time with reading, writing, math, directions, and generally all left brain hemisphere tasks because of a dominant right brain hemisphere.

Left brain hemisphere tasks are what traditional schools focus on while right brain hemisphere tasks are more non-conformist, artistic, and creative.

Exploration International discusses in detail dyslexia as disability and an amazing ability and explains dyslexia via brain images.

Needless to say, dyslexics often feel out of place in traditional school environments.

However, once dyslexics are out in the world and on their own, there is no limit as to what dyslexics can do with their dyslexic right-brain hemisphere gift.

One of the most recent dyslexic artists in the news is Vince Low whose work is seen above and to the left. Vince Low is dyslexic and from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His artistic focus is Illustration, Advertising, and Character Design.

One of Vince Low’s projects is “Faces” which he began as head illustrator at the advertising agency Grey where he created initially three portraits of famous dyslexics in order to create awareness for dyslexia.

Vince Low’s faces are featured in a July 22, 2013, UK Daily Mail report and the dyslexic artist explained that “it all started with an advertising campaign for the Dyslexia Association of Malaysia. In Malaysia, most people are not aware of dyslexia at all.

For the dyslexia campaign, Vince Low used the chaos of scribbled pen lines to produce portraits of famous people.  (Vince Low includes Albert Einstein but there is no evidence that Albert Einstein had dyslexia.) 

More impressive than his famous people portraits though are Vince Low’s War, End of the World, and Evil drawings.

To see more of Vince Low's work, please visit his display on Behance.net.