illustrated with 12-page color photo insert and line art throughout A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies. When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition. Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes: * the very latest developments in brain research; * new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education; * instruction on self-expression through drawing; * an updated section on using color; and * detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving. Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Change Your Approach To Drawing! Recommended:
My wife and I have taken art lessons for a few years and have advanced from crude sketches to frameable drawings. We augmented our professional lessons with "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain", and we both saw a marked improvement in the quality of our work. The best way to describe the central theme is "disassociation". Stop thinking about what you are drawing in terms of words ("Left Brain") and start breaking them down into shapes ("Right Brain"). The techniques and instructions in the... more info
Not just for Want-To-Be Artists:
This is a very interesting book--and not just for aspiring artists, but for anyone. The author devotes a lot of time to explaining how our "left brain" dominates all our thoughts and actions and that we must become accustomed to how it feels to use the right side of our brain, that the right side of our brain is where we create (anything: art, music, handiwork, etc.) She explains that we really have two brains that control different ways we think and behave and provides exercises we can do to illustrate... more info
Excellent book!:
I made it into my mid-twenties thinking that I couldn't draw -- that I hadn't been "blessed" with the "talent" necessary to do it well ... After just one day of reading this book, I was already drawing somewhat realistic looking sketches -- I realized that it wasn't that I didn't have the ability to draw, but that I just hadn't learned the *skills* necessary to succeed at it. This book opened my mind and enabled me to see what exactly it was that I was "missing" about drawing, and helped me learn... more info
Fabulous and instructive:
This book is a wonderful start for anyone wishing to begin or improve their drawing skills. Anyone can vastly improve with a bit of direction and practice. It explains (in bite-sized portions) a bit of science behind drawing and why this method works. I also highly recommend the accompanying workbook, so you can keep your work in one place and have a record of your progress. Kudos to the author!
