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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

by Betty Edwards

Learning to see through drawing

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Learning to see through drawing

Betty Edwards’s drawing guide pairs practical instruction with an account of how perception and learning relate to the act of drawing. This fourth edition adds discussion of brain plasticity and skill-building, along with a section on early childhood scribbling and its relationship to language development. Reproductions of master drawings accompany the text. The book also frames drawing as a way to attend more closely to visual information, making its subject broader than technique alone. Its coverage ranges from foundational drawing practice to the role of observation and the value of encouraging children’s early mark-making.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Adults learning to draw, whether as a hobby or in professional or training contexts.
  • Instructors or parents interested in drawing practice and children’s early scribbling.
  • Readers curious about connections between visual perception, learning, and drawing.

Themes

Drawing instructionVisual perception and observationBrain plasticity and learningEarly childhood scribbling

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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
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