This isn’t just for “artists.” This book is for anyone who’d like to be more creative and see the world with fresh eyes. Try the upside-down drawing exercise once, and it might just blow your mind. As Betty puts it in the Introduction: “Many of my readers have intuitively understood that this book is not only about learning to draw, and it is certainly not about Art with a capital A. The true subject is perception. Yes, the lessons have helped many people attain the basic ability to draw, and that is a main purpose of the book. But the larger underlying purpose was always to … teach readers how to see in new ways, with hopes that they would discover how to transfer perceptual skills to thinking and problem solving.”
Ed Catmull, co-founder of Pixar, said practically the same thing in our hour-long conversation together. Learning how to make basic ‘art’ isn’t frivolous—it teaches you, first and foremost, how to *see* the life around you much more clearly. Learning even primitive drawing, which you can do in a few afternoons, will fundamentally change how you see the world. As Betty writes: “My students’ most frequent comment after learning to draw is ‘Life seems much richer now that I am seeing more.’”
I’m skeptical of the neuroscience conclusions in the book, but the metaphors and exercises are rock solid.
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
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