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Available
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Publication
TarcherPerigee (2012), Edition: Deluxe, 320 pages
Description
This book is designed to help the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills. It includes updates based on recent research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning. It offers new tools for identifying and solving life problems with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing. It shows how new emphasis on how the ability to use the strengths of the brain's right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life, the worship of all that is linear, analytic, and digital.
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LibraryThing member argente17
This book takes me back to when I was 15, studying for Art GCSE. The teacher made us read and study this book from beginning to end. It taught us to draw what we saw, not what we thought we saw - something that transformed our work. I would highly recommend this for anyone who would like to 'learn'
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how to draw. Show Less
LibraryThing member maryh10000
Think you can't draw? Think again. You don't have to buy the left brain / right brain stuff to benefit from this. It was amazing fun to find out, in my forties, that I can actually draw reasonably well if I have a model to look at.
LibraryThing member bookcrazed
"The purpose of this book is not to teach you to express yourself, but instead to provide you with the skills which will release you from stereotypic expression," declares Edwards. Just as Updike taught me to look at a painting and see everything in it, Edwards taught me to look at what I sought to
I was working from Edwards's 1979 edition when I learned to draw in 1997. There is a lot of new information in the 1989 edition. She has a greater emphasis on what she calls drawing as a "global skill." Global skills, such as reading, become automatic over time. Thus, by learning the four basic skills Edwards teaches, you will eventually (sooner, rather than later, she claims) draw just as automatically as you read. She has also expanded and improved the skill of sighting and the skill of the perception of lights and shadows. And to aid those who plan on going into painting, she has added a chapter on drawing with color.
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draw. Citing research on differences in right brain and left brain function, Edwards bases her teaching method on the premise "that developing a new way of seeing by tapping the spatial functions of the right hemisphere of your brain can help you learn to draw." The exercises presented are designed to train the student to process visual information through the right brain, the side that sees things as they are, rather than the left brain, where human beings store symbols for what they see. The results of working with Edwards's exercises were surprising and satisfying for me. By following the book's instructions, reasonable, realistic representations of people and objects began to emerge from my pencil.I was working from Edwards's 1979 edition when I learned to draw in 1997. There is a lot of new information in the 1989 edition. She has a greater emphasis on what she calls drawing as a "global skill." Global skills, such as reading, become automatic over time. Thus, by learning the four basic skills Edwards teaches, you will eventually (sooner, rather than later, she claims) draw just as automatically as you read. She has also expanded and improved the skill of sighting and the skill of the perception of lights and shadows. And to aid those who plan on going into painting, she has added a chapter on drawing with color.
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LibraryThing member herebedragons
A good book about improving one's artistic ability. IIRC
LibraryThing member rajene
This book is a classic and will help anyone improve their skills. I had read it on my own, and we used it in drawing class. Was the first popular book I know to differentiate right and left brain information processing. Another I need to re-read.
LibraryThing member Mickyflynn
An excellent title to help you begin drawing.
LibraryThing member vivimine
One of the best...NO...THE Best book for learning how to draw...
It is clear and easy to read... it will take you step by step through the process of learning how to see and force your logical brain to let go so you can draw the forms as they really are
...everytime the Book was revised I bought the
It is clear and easy to read... it will take you step by step through the process of learning how to see and force your logical brain to let go so you can draw the forms as they really are
...everytime the Book was revised I bought the
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LibraryThing member vivimine
One of the best...NO...THE Best book for learning how to draw...
It is clear and easy to read... it will take you step by step through the process of learning how to see and force your logical brain to let go so you can draw the forms as they really are
...everytime the Book was revised I bought the
It is clear and easy to read... it will take you step by step through the process of learning how to see and force your logical brain to let go so you can draw the forms as they really are
...everytime the Book was revised I bought the
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newer copy for my reference shelf Show Less
LibraryThing member br77rino
A really interesting how-to-draw book. She gets into brain function to 'show' you how to draw. It's a bit 60's-ish, but good. Definitely worth a look if you have any interest in learning to draw.
LibraryThing member PeskyLibrary
I’m reading Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain right now, and I’m finding it fascinating. I’ve always been intrigued by the influence of the right versus the left brain. This method of learning to draw is supposed to help those like me, who are left-brainers, let the right side of the
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brain take over to do the drawing. I’ve done a few exercises in it already, one of which was drawing one of those profiles that looks like a vase picture. The other was an upside-down drawing (a Picasso, no less!). The purpose of this is to influence your left brain to turn this task down: it won’t like drawing something it can’t name. Once your right brain gets the opportunity to express itself, drawing becomes easier. The chapter I thought was very interesting was about how most of us get stuck in the artistic stage of a 10 to 12 year old. Verbal development causes us to name everything and assign symbols to things. Every time we draw, therefore, we use symbols, such as a sun drawn in the corner of the page. It is hard to draw what we really see when we are so used to letting our left brain interpret and express the symbol. I’m looking forward to seeing some artistic development as I work my way through this book. MLM Jan 1/12 Show Less
LibraryThing member cuelibrary
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing instruction 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
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deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you. Show Less
LibraryThing member SandyAMcPherson
Excellent (so far); succeeds in leading you to being confident and to draw what you actually see.
Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
1979
Physical description
320 p.; 9.4 inches
ISBN
158542921X / 9781585429219