New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing

New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing
by Betty Edwards

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Author: Betty Edwards
Edition: Spiral-bound
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-10-28
ISBN: 1585421952
Number of pages: 160
Publisher: Tarcher

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Book Review: The ANIMAL FARM ACADEMY of ART
Summary: 1 Stars

"DRAWING ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BRAIN"?

LEARN-TO-DRAW: UNTHINKING PERSONS APPLY HERE!

Same author also wrote: "Drawing on the Artist Within".

In one instance, it is drawing on the "brain", and in the other, it's drawing on the "artist within". Betty Edwards is an art fad theorist. Edwards cashes in on the simple fact that many people are unfamiliar with INVERSE/OBVERSE perception.

What EDWARDS actually offers is a psychological crutch, for all the drawing instruction is founded upon a singular theory. That is not encouraging art in others. Rather, it's ART FASCISM. Art has never been founded upon a singular theory. Often as not, ART is the anti-thesis, the opposite, of all theorizing and intellectualizing. EDWARDS makes the practice of ART a theory-dependent activity, rather than a form of creativity that transcends idea-formation. It's a very undemocratic idea; but at the same time, credit Edwards with coy marketing, if not art theory fascism.

What does one actually draw WITH? Is it one half of the human brain? ...OR... Is it the Heart? Because if it is the latter, EDWARDS' art theorizing collapses. Realistically, people who draw, no more analyze "HOW" they draw, any more than a bee analayzes "HOW" he flies; but false instruction is marketable when truth & fiction are cunningly mixed.

Here, the subtle suggestion is the blatant falsehood that there exist people in the world that cannot draw. IT IS NOT TRUE! That is a false assumption, swallowed hook, line & sinker by a gullible public. To the point here, there are no SCIENTIFIC evidence or facts presented as evidence that there are people who-cannot-draw. In this manner, Edwards is able to shift between POPULAR MYTH and SCIENTIFIC FACT. RIGHT-BRAIN PERCEPTION is sold as the snake-oil miracle cure for the suffering masses who have been denied spiritual healing.

Furthermore, even if EDWARDS were to carry her own logic forward to its rightful conclusion, and the reader applied the very same RIGHT-BRAIN/INVERSE/OBVERSE mode of visualization to the purpose of examining definition of terms, it would become obvious that Edwards turns all definition on it's head. One example of such table-turning involves the meaning of the term, "artist" sloppily inferred merely to be.. "those-who-can-draw". If Edwards can teach you how to draw, you are, ipso facto, an ARTIST. Don't we all wish!

Allow me to provide another ready example. Lewis Carroll's story, "ALICE IN WONDERLAND" provides a rich assortment of visual images, and many of these amusing dramatic themes rely precisely upon INVERSE/OBVERSE PERCEPTION and RIGHT-BRAIN processing; but Edwards ignores this and suggests to the pop-culture crowd, and those not gifted with critical thinking skills, that some scientist has a NEW & IMPROVED invention whereby humans can now access their RIGHT-BRAIN and be magically transformed into a NEW & IMPROVED identity, that of an "ARTIST". How absolutely silly!

This is the same as suggesting, that if I change my car's tire, by becoming conscious of the NEGATIVE SPACE surrounding the tire, I am an AUTO MECHANIC. This is what Edward's calls reaching a state of "altered consciousness".

ART is the opposite of any such instruction that reduces itself to any kind of theoretical hand-holding. And for these reasons, EDWARDS books are a conflicting hodge-podge of New Age metaphysics, pseudo-scientific jargon, and sly half-truths, the nature of which, great ART has been combatting from time immemorial, for all such ideas place a crippling limitation upon free spirits. Art is about freedom, rather than binding or crippling attachment to intellectualizations, human fear, doubt, insecurity or angst. If you are not burdened with such negativisms, there is no reason to buy Edwards' theory; no need to draw-on-the-cash-in-your-wallet.

What Edwards does, and does very well, is practice a kind of intellectual gangsterism. Logic and Reason and any questions are simply forced aside with pages of metaphysical and NEW AGE propaganda, while followers repeat claims in Orwellian fashion like the barnyard stock in "ANIMAL FARM"; "FOUR LEGS GOOD; TWO LEGS BETTER!" Such mantras, chanted by the naive, produce an equivalent:
"RIGHT-BRAIN-DRAWING, MAKE-ME-AN-ARTIST!" "RIGHT-BRAIN-DRAWING, MAKE-ME-AN-ARTIST!". If only it were true.

Summary of New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook: Guided Practice in the Five Basic Skills of Drawing

Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities.

Here are forty new exercises that cover each of the five basic skills of drawing. Each practice session includes a brief explanation and instructional drawings, suggestions for materials, sample drawings, and blank pages for the reader's own drawings. Also provided in this spiral-bound workbook is a pullout viewfinder, a crucial tool for effective practice. While The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain focused primarily on portrait drawing with pencil, this workbook gives readers experience in various subject matter-still life, landscape, imaginative drawing-using alternative mediums such as pen and ink, charcoal, and conté crayon.

For all those who are taking a drawing class, who have already received instruction through a book or course, or who prefer to learn by doing, this volume of carefully structured "homework" offers the perfect opportunity to reinforce and improve their skills and expand their repertoire.

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