The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (Paperback)

by Betty Edwards (Author) "DRAWING IS A CURIOUS PROCESS, so intertwined with seeing that the two can hardly be separated..." (more)
Key Phrases: picture plane, plastic picture plane, sighting proportions, Basic Unit, Pure Contour Drawing, Brian Bomeisler (more...)

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'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.' Los Angeles Times

Product Description
Whether you feel you have little talent and you doubt you could ever learn, or you enjoy drawing, but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, this book aims to give you the skill you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist or artist-in-training, it aims to give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception. This 20th-anniversary edition of "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" has been revised, with more than 50 per cent new material, including: recent developments in brain research that relate to drawing; new insights on the use of drawing techniques in the corporate world; and education instruction on self-expression through drawing; and ways to step beyond black-and-white drawing into colour; and detailed advice on applying the five basic skills of drawing to solve problems.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd; 3rd edition (November 5, 2001)
• ISBN-10: 0007116454
• ISBN-13: 978-0007116454
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (185 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #313,934 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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139 of 140 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It took me from stick men to portraits in three days., December 22, 1999

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I can't emphatize how good this book is. I used to consider myself absolutely useless at drawing. I barely managed to pass exams at art classes at school. Now I am drawing fairly decent portraits from almost everyone I know. The book focueses on seeing the things' real shapes and it is just this non rational, non mathematically based approach that makes it work. I used to have big problems with proportions and perspective, and Betty Edwards made me realise it's all a matter of looking at things with loving attention (and not attaching a name to the bit you are drawing). This book has made me realise I've lost many years of my life blocking myself as an artist. Drawing is a skill that everyone can learn. Do it with this book!

44 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Can Make An Artist Out Of Anyone!, May 26, 2000

By	carol irvin "carol knowlton irvin" (chesterland, OH United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

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I made abstract art for two decades but it took this book, and a matching course I took at my local Ursuline College, to convince me that I could also learn realism. Today, I continue to improve in drawing recognizable people, a feat which used to be totally beyond me. This book shows you ways of tricking your brain into shifting sides so that you can "see" people and objects in the three dimensional world the way only a few "artistic" people otherwise seemed capable of seeing and then depicting.

78 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is absolutely the best book on drawing in print, January 7, 2000

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I have a degree in commercial art and learned more about drawing from this book than I did in four years of undergraduate instruction. If you practice everyday what Ms. Edwards teaches you will be drawing as good as any professional artist in six months. This really is the best book on drawing ever published!