Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

By Betty Edwards

Book Overview

A revised edition of the classic bestselling how to draw book. A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come.

Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. This revised/updated fourth edition includes:

- a new introduction;
- crucial updates based on recent research on the brain's plasticity and the enormous value of learning new skills/ utilizing the right hemisphere of the brain;
- new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life-the worship of all that is linear, analytic, digital, etc.;
- an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood "scribbling" to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity;
- and new reproductions of master drawings throughout

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585429201
• ISBN13: 9781585429202
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Tarcher
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.3" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Right side thinking 💭

This book took me awhile to read and read once more. Just to try and take notes the 2nd time through. I got my notes now and I'm on my way to drawing better.. Betty Edwards is a grand person and author, I can't give her enough 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟's God Bless Betty for the time spent to help artist's grow. Very well put together book, I give the book a 5.

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!