The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain | 
 enlarge | Author: Betty Edwards
Publisher: Tarcher
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  170 reviews
Sales Rank: 1055
Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Exp
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 7.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 0874774241
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.2
EAN: 9780874774245
ASIN: 0874774241
Publication Date: August 30, 1999
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Condition: Has remainder mark and/or slight shelf wear- never read- shipped in bubble wrap
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Product Description
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."
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 Change Your Approach To Drawing! Recommended December 22, 2008
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 book get you to start thinking correctly when looking at your subject. It sounds somewhat silly, but it really does work.
My only real complaint is that the writing is a little wordy and the same results could have been achieved in fewer pages, but this in no way detracts from the value of this excellent book.
Highly recommended!
 Not just for Want-To-Be Artists November 11, 2008
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 "switching" from left brain activity to "right" brain activity. She teaches us how to SEE in a different way and how to translate that onto paper. By seeing things in a different way, we can appreciate our gift of sight so much more and begin to take things for granted less. Wonderful book--even if you don't want to begin drawing. But be forewarned, YOU WILL PROBABLY WANT TO EXPERIMENT JUST A LITTLE.
Excellent book! November 4, 2008
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 to do something I thought was impossible. The exercises are wonderful, but what is even better is that, unlike most drawing books I've come across -- the author not only provides exercises, but also provides *explanations* of why the exercises are important -- i.e. what you are exercising! Her experiences as a teacher, and her digressions into cognitive science and scientific studies regarding how people learn to draw were extremely beneficial, and provided a useful context for the exercises that wasn't present in other books I've tried.
This is an excellent book -- I'd highly recommend it to anyone, even someone who already thinks they know how to draw well. I'm sure there is something in there that will be new to them too. My partner who has been drawing for many years, has also found several items of interest in here .... anyhow that's about enough review writing for me now.
Fabulous and instructive October 25, 2008
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!
 Only for the untalented... September 21, 2008
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Okay, first let me say that this is an okay book only for those who are not an artist or just starting. I had this as a text book(drawing course for graphic design major in a small tech/bus school), and being I've been drawing since I could hold a writing utensil I found it slightly insulting, especially being in a graphic design course. It's really only for the untalented, along yes, I did get something from it the grids...but that's it.
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