The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The 1999, 3rd Edition

by Betty Edwards

Book Overview

Helps the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching the skills of drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874774195
• ISBN13: 9780874774191
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.8" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Beautiful illustrations

The text is wonderful! Like actually having a nice teacher walk you through the steps.

It took me from stick men to portraits in three days.

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!