- #DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN HOW TO#
- #DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN PROFESSIONAL#
If you are already drawing as a professional artist it will give you a greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception.
#DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN HOW TO#
Whether you feel you have little talent and doubt you could ever learn or you enjoy drawing but have not been able to get beyond a child-like level, these exercises will show you how to gain and master drawing skills. It has been translated into 13 languages and is the world's most widely used drawing instruction book. Since Betty Edwards first published her book in 1979, it has been on the New York Times best seller list with more than 2.5 million copies sold.
That is what a person trained in drawing does, and that is what you can learn.
Learning to draw, then, turns out not to be "learning to draw." Paradoxically, "learning to draw" means learning to make a mental shift from L-mode to R-mode. Most activities require both modes, each contributing its special functions, but a few activities require mainly one mode, without interference from the other. R-mode on the other hand, uses visual information and processes, not step-by-step, but all at once, like recognizing the face of a friend. L-mode strings things out in sequences, like words in a sentence. L-mode is a step-by-step style of thinking, using words, numbers and other symbols. You are probably aware of these different characteristics. Only five days had elapsed between "before" and "after!"īetty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, has used the terms L-Mode and R-Mode to designate two ways of knowing and seeing - the verbal, analytic mode and the visual, perceptual mode - no matter where they are located in the individual brain. The students came from various professions and backgrounds but all had one common goal - to learn to draw. These before and after drawings were collected from Five Day Intensive Drawing Classes. Modern brain scientists now know that your left brain is your verbal and rational brain it thinks serially and reduces its thoughts to numbers, letters and words… Your right brain is your nonverbal and intuitive brain it thinks in patterns, or pictures, composed of ‘whole things,’ and does not comprehend reductions, either numbers, letters, or words." "You have two brains: a left and a right. The story of the two brains stands up in the age of the MRI. This ubiquitous bit of pop science wisdom came out of Nobel Prize-winning neurology, and it spawned the bestseller Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. Right-brained people are supposed to be artistic and spontaneous, while left-brainers are literal and analytical in other words, Captain Kirk and Spock. To provide you with exercises to strengthen your right side of your brain so you can draw what you see and not what you think you see.