About this title: Whether you feel you have little talent and you doubt you could ever learn, or you enjoy drawing, but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, this book aims to give you the skill you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist or artist-in-training, it aims to give you greater confidence in your ability ...
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. and at $27.50 (H, 0874774195) from Putnam. The 1979 first edition of this now-classic spent over a year on the New York Times best-seller list. Revised in 1989, it hit the celebrated list once more. Now, further refined through hundreds of workshops and seminars given by the author, this thoroughly revised third edition is being released simultaneously in hardcover and paperback. Not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. -Los Angeles Times. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: J P Tarcher
Date Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN-13:9780874774245ISBN:0874774241
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780874774245. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: J P Tarcher
Date Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN-13:9780874774191ISBN:0874774195
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780874774191. read more
Edition: 3 REV ED
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780007116454ISBN:0007116454
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 320 pages. (320 pages) whether you feel you have little talent and you doubt you could ever learn, or you enjoy drawing, but have not been able to get much beyond a childlike level, this book aims to give you the skill you have always wanted. colour and b&w illustrations, portraits edition 3 rev ed (Paperback) read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: SOUVENIR PRESS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9780285636644ISBN:0285636642
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 148 pages. (148 pages) this workbook is a practical, definitive guide to drawing skills and exercises that will develop the skills of anyone. a companion volume to the world's bestselling art instruction book, 'new drawing on the right side of the brain'. illustrations (Paperback) read more
"This is the book my art teacher used to teach us when I was in my early teens. It's actually got some good ideas in there, with alot of jargon that I didn't understand (and didn't really care to, you don't miss much). Looking back, I appreciate some of the lessons I learned from it. Even if you think you can't draw, give this a chance! Forget that you think all your drawings look like a kid's, and try it, it really was good for me.
The main idea seems to be that we draw what we THINK we see, not what we actually see, because our brain interprets it on the way from our eye to our hand. It's so true! We did a lot of drawing from photographs turned upside down, to disguise the subject so that our brain didn't interpret it, and I think that was a good way to train your eye to see the real shapes. Of course, you still turn your picture around from time to time to get a good overview and see if things fit which you might have missed before, but overall the upside down method was useful for me when I was learning.
That said, I really really HATED the portraits. Faces are a naturally complex subject to draw, and they are hardest to draw in pencil, and much easier with charcoal. I firmly am of the opinion that learning the anatomical rules to a face - learning to draw each of the parts separately, then how the head is proportioned and where the parts actually go on it (not just where we think they go), then combining the two - is a much better approach.
Oh, and I really hated the hand drawings... where you draw your hand without looking at the paper. I understand the point was to train your hand and your eye to go at the same pace, but frankly I don't see anything wrong with looking at your paper and felt it was a dumb exercise every time I did it. Which was alot."
"Betty Edwards is amazing - I believe she is the one person more responsible than any other for the great advancements being made in art eduction that we've seen over the last few decades."
"I took private art lessons for seven years and was largely taught based on the principles in this book. It is the best drawing book I have ever come across."
"Love this book which gave me back the joy of drawing! I joined 3 art classes where our teacher used this book. I stopped drawing when I was 12 because I wasn't good at all. Now 40 years later after the first few classes and a lot of practice everyone including myself are very pleased with what I draw. I is so wonderful and it's giving you peace of mind only focused on one thing: the drawing infront of you."
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