Description
Revised edition of the classic bestselling how-to-draw book!
Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards 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 improve all levels of drawing skills. It 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.
About the Author: Betty Edwards speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and companies. Now retired from her position as professor emeritus of art at California State University in Long Beach, Edwards received her doctorate from UCLA in art, education, and the psychology of perception. Dr. Edwards has been profiled on The Today Show and in Time, among other magazines and newspapers. She lives in California.
This edition includes:
- A new introduction
- New reproductions of master drawings
- 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 research linking early childhood “scribbling” to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity
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