Apart from the exercises themselves, I'd also value it for the
reassuring assertion (quoting from memory) 'If you have good enough
eye-hand coordination to drive a car then you can also learn to draw' I
don't know if this is absolutely scientifically true - but it's an
effective and down to earth confidence-booster for people who've
believed all their lives that you have to have some special artistic
talent to draw anything....
Pauline
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Subject: Re: Recommendation
Waqas
I have it as reference for teaching. If you already understand and
utilise effectively the basic principles governing proportion, line,
tone, shape etc. in terms of representational, observation-based
drawing, I don't think Betty Edwards' exercises will do any more than
give you warm-up exercises. But for anyone still grappling with
these drawing processes they're brilliant. The major lesson they
teach people is to acknowledge that we see what we think we know, and
learning to draw what you see is largely a process of learning to see
abstractly, with 'clean slate' eyes.
In my opinion.
Damian.
On 23 Apr 2007, at 18:27, waqas wrote:
Hello,
I am new to this research network but not new to drawing.
Does anyone have or use 'The New Drawing on the Right Side of the
Brain' by Betty Edwards + the workbook as a point of reference?
Would you recommend it's excercises/instructions as a way to improve
or is it more for people starting to learn how to draw?
Thanks for your time.
Waqas
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