Product Description

Learning to draw is very much like mastering a sport or a musical instrument: to advance your ability, you must practice, practice, practice. But in practicing, what, specifically should you draw? This convenient workbook contains the answer: forty basic and new exercises that reinforce the five basic skills of drawing. Each provides appropriate subject matter, brief instruction, sample drawings, a ready-made format in which to draw, and helpful post exercise pointers. In addition to portrait drawing with pencil, you will explore new subject matter - still life, landscape, imaginative drawing - using alternative mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal, and conte crayon. If you are taking a drawing class, have already received instruction through a book or course, or just prefer to learn by doing, this volume of guided practice will be a permanent record of your work that offers the perfect opportunity to hone your skills and expand your repertoire.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6947 in Books
• Published on: 2003-04-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 148 pages

'Artists and Illustrators'
"Does a pretty good job of breaking down the technique of drawing
into easily-digested pieces."

'Leisure Painter'
"An ingenious way to understand and overcome the problem of
foreshortening and to grasp the fundamentals of form and relationships."

About the Author
Dr. Betty Edwards is professor emerita of art at California State University in Long Beach. Her classic NEW DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN is the leading art instruction book in the world at present with over 2.5 million copies sold. She received her doctorate from UCLA in art, education, and the psychology of perception. She speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and businesses, including the Walt Disney Company and Apple Computer. She lives in Santa Monica, California.

Customer Reviews

Learning to Draw
For anyone who has decided that they can not draw at all this is the book for you. It is a pratical book. To start off all you need is a pencil and a rubber.This will get you through the first 7 exercises and if you are like me get you very enthusiastic. The book starts with 3 exercises to show your starting ability and then has 37 more exercises using the techniques given. The sketches are done in the book. The book also includes a pullout viewfinder tool. Just brilliant.

Great! Lots of tricks to force you to observe life before reproducing it.
Did it myself. I'm in the arts industry but after spending too much time infront of a computer needed a refresher course in seeing (rather than just looking and presuming what you think is there) Reminded me of exercises that art teachers did at art school (before still-life & life-drawing went out of fashion). I have recently bought one for my 9 year old daughter.

If you are not a teacher i would just get this workbook and not bother with the theory one.

Great, but!
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook is a great book. A true step by step training manual full of useful tips, lots of encouragement and breaking the myth that few are born artists. From the beginning you are assured that you can draw and with practice can only get better. The irritating problem is that the exercise page format throughout the entire book is a different size to (smaller than) the supplied picture plane. This obviously creates problems and the only way around it is to redraw the format before each exercise. A right pain!