Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Betty Edwards

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