Translated into over 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, deepen your artistic perception, and foster a new appreciation of the world around you.
The method focuses on skills such as edges and lines, negative space, relationships, light and shadows, and drawing from memory and imagination. She drew inspiration from neuroscience, particularly the research on cerebral hemispheres.
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
