Wednesday, 29 April 2009
Artist Within
I have recently been reading this book 'Drawing on the Artist Within' by Betty Edwards, based on how to approach art and drawing in a completely different way mainly through the use of using your right side of the brain (your artistic side). The techniques of which she comes up with are both interesting and engaging and i strongly recommend this book to anyone, either people interested in becoming an artist for the first time, or even experienced artists.
2 comments:
Hey Simon, this book looks cool. Are you finding it is helping you improve your drawing skills? I have juts ordered a book about life drawing and dynamics from Amazon... I'm really out of practice so need to get drawing ASAP! hehe
Yeah its really good! I tries to teach you different ways on how to approach drawing, some of it is stuff which i learnt in college and other stuff in new.. like drawing an upside down image.
Heres some information about the book (taken from amazon):
Product Description
AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW!
Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of creativity.
Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.
Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways.
Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.
You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:
* First insight
* Saturation
* Incubation
* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)
* Verification
Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.
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