About this title: Millions of people have learned to draw using Betty Edwards' methods. 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. Forty new exercises cover each of the five basic skills of drawing.
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: J P Tarcher
Date Published: 2002-10-01
ISBN-13:9781585421954ISBN:1585421952
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"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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