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Title: The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards ISBN: 0-87477-424-1 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (76 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Great Book
Comment: If you just want to get started drawing cartoons
or copying other peoples drawings with no fuss this
is not the best book to start with. I am about 3/4 of
the way through it now. I really like this book alot
and it think it is a great book but probably best used
after some initial level of confidence is aquired. Also
the book provides a lot of thoery that is probably too
advanced for preteens so I wouldn't use it for teaching
children unless your going to be helping them along the
way and explaining it to them. The main thing is that
you might not get sudden explosive results like a lot of
people say, I could already draw realistic noses
and eyes and such before I started reading it by using well defined methods but I am learning much from this book, I really think if you want to do this book you should bother to read the thoery and try to participate in the described mindset.
I think it's a great book, I have been practicing
with it and "Keys to drawing" side by side and
both are similar however but Keys is more of a how to
book where Right brain includes more thoery and a
little less action. The drawing excerizes in both books
can take a considerable amount of time if you want to finish the books quickly(ie doing several excersizes a day) so it's probably best to start when you'll have some free time.
Rating: 4
Summary: Excellent Beginner's Drawing Book
Comment: Seems to be a lot of reviews here that hate Edwards and a lot that love her. I think this is a great book, but only for getting your drawing skills up to a certain level of competency. I am glad I read the book and would recommend it to anyone like me.
I took up the pencil about two months ago and have never had any drawing instruction previously. After spending about three weeks with her book, practicing 2-3 hours a day, I am now at a skill level where I feel comfortable (dare I say proud) to show my drawings to my friends. I am no longer afraid (out of embarrassment) to sign up for classes with the Art Students' League.
That is what Edwards' book will do for you. It will not make you an artist; it will teach you a skill, quickly. I don't want to get dragged into who is and who is not an artist, but consider this book more like how to ride a bike, not on how to be a cyclist.
Regarding the two mind theory, I say skim through all of the bits about the brain, but don't skip it. Whether or not it is proven is unimportant. The concept of two brains is proven as an effective model for teaching drawing, and that is all that is important.
Rating: 1
Summary: a re-hash of other, equally disparate instruction
Comment: The novelty of the title is appropriate to the NEW AGE genre in style and language. Were one to purchase a title such as "Drawing On My Left Elbow" one would have an equally diffuse sense of the obscure methodology of this "new" way of drawing.
I mean, really, forget Michaelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt et al of the Rennaissance. Now it is fashionable to approach art with the all the "NEW & IMPROVED" Madison Avenue advertising hype of a laundry soap commercial, where one is convinced that one actually draws with a half of a brain, and falsely suggests that former methods employed only the LEFT SIDE of the brain, titled in the fashion of naming of 1960's rock bands.
There is virtually no intermediate drawing process in Betty Edwards book. One sees completed drawings, inferring that if the student merely sees the pictures, it will result in equally completed drawings, with not even so much as an errant smudge on the neat white paper. The text suggests that the student practice of course, but the author will not be accompanying the student during the journey, and none of the illustrations contained in Edward's book indicate the intermediate drawings, the practice, the failures and disappointments at representing form that every new student feels. This is where the student is quite literally abandoned to the wolves of personal insecurity, frustration, disappointment, and the resultant low self-estimation. After all, Edwards can actually draw...and you can't. That, in my view, is a complete failure in art instruction.
Edward's book is also a perpetuation of a common myth regarding TEACHING of any kind; that, if one can DO something well, one can also TEACH it. That just isn't so. Oddly, one would never think of teaching woodworking by showing completed cabinetry; but somehow it seems fashionable to infer that there is a shortcut to training eye and hand. There are no shortcuts. It was true 700 years ago. It is true today.
There is good drawing instruction by Will Pogany, Cortina Famous Artists School, Walt Reed, and absolutely, Robert Beverly Hale, and any serious drawing student would be well-advised to examine such books, in my opinion.
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Title: New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing by Betty Edwards ISBN: 1585421952 Publisher: J. P. Tarcher Pub. Date: 10 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Natural Way to Draw : A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides ISBN: 0395530075 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 01 February, 1990 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: How to Draw What You See by Rudy De Reyna ISBN: 0823023753 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Drawing on the Artist Within by Betty Edwards ISBN: 067163514X Publisher: Fireside Pub. Date: 06 April, 1987 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson ISBN: 0891343377 Publisher: North Light Books Pub. Date: August, 1990 List Price(USD): $22.99 |
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