aspies & art

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I read that the right side of the brain is used for drawing/painting and that the left side of the brain is actually harmfull if you want to create art that is not on the level of drawings made by children.

Now aspies are supposedly more right brained, would this have any influence on their drawing capabilities.

Also how would the focus on detail vs the bigger picture fit in with aspies doing art.

Just hoping to get more info about this, maybe some experiences.

Actually, most material I've read on the right/left dichotomy in regards to autism claims that aspies tend to be more impaired in right brain functions.

When I was young I loved art, but my art was always more like a technical drawing than an art. This is an issue of left over right.

I'm an art student, I spend almost all my waking life either making art or thinking about it in some way. There is a definite influence on the way I work that comes from my attention to detail. When I draw I don't draw something as if it is a whole object.. by that I mean, some people might see a vase, and think, 'okay, so I will draw a vase', and it might not look exactly like that vase because they're drawing a vase, not necessarily the vase. For me when I look at an object I see that exact formation of lines, tone, etc, and make sure every tiny thing is exactly the same. It means I can draw realistically and I can't understand how some people can draw something that clearly does not have the exact same shape or proportion as the thing they were trying to draw.
That being said, the attention to detail can cause problems with drawing specific parts of an object perfectly, but not having them match up on paper, so having spaces where I hadn't thought how to join up the whole thing but rather focused on one part or another. I used to step back from a drawing I had spent hours on and realise it was all worthless because it didn't fit together. I have learned not to do it now though and I always roughly plan the proportions/composition of something before I start, and remember to step back from it reguarly. I also have a sort of natural ability for composition, ie knowing where things go in relation to each other and the relative size of things (I used to get really annoyed when the tutor told me I had to measure things by holding a pencil at arms length, because I can do it just as well instinctively, and measuring is just confusing).

You are right aspies in general would seem to be impaired in certain right brain functions, i confused left and right.

But it seems to me there are parts of the right brain functions that comes up in aspie traits, What about the thinking in pictures ?.