Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (EDWARDS, Betty)

Over 2 million copies sold. 

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 feel that you have no talent for drawing and doubt that you could ever learn, or you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist-in-training, or for a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability, deepen your artistic perception, and offer a new way of appreciating the way you perceive the world around you. This definitive revised and expanded fourth edition includes:

• • A new introduction
  • Updates based on recent groundbreaking research about the brain's plasticity and the emerging significance of right-brain functioning
  • New tools for identifying and solving problems in every realm of your life with the visual-thinking skills acquired through drawing
  • 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, digital, and so on
  • New reproductions of master drawings throughout

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 to come.

Dr. Betty Edwards speaks regularly at universities, art schools, and businesses. Now retired from her position as professor in art at California State University, Long Beach, she 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, the Los Angeles Times, The Seattle Times, Readers Digest, and other publications. She lives in La Jolla, California.