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Summary: From doodles to masterpieces
Review: I have the First Edition, but if the rave reviews are anything to go by, the updated edition is even better. If you want to learn to paint in watercolour, the first step is to learn to see. "But I CAN see!" you exclaim. Read on ... Betty Edwards could teach ANYONE to draw. She gives simple, practical drawing exercises, systematically breaking down our preconceived ideas of what we THINK things look like. This brilliant book literally teaches us how to see. She also includes "before" and "after" drawings to show us the amazing results of following her methods. EVERY artist should own this book. And anyone who claims they cannot draw should definitely own this book.
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Summary: pick it up if you want to draw...
Review: If you are one of those person who feel inspired at times and get this urge to 'draw' but you never have and you are scared, apprehensive, shy or whatever.. just pick this book and follow the instructions page by page and do the exercises. Trust me, by the end of the day/week you will be able to draw whatever you want to draw. This is my first hand experience.I never had drawing instruction in entire school life growing up and I picked this book (some old version)from some old used bookstore and it was like magic. It starts from the very basic yet so daunting exercise to draw a picture which is upside down. And this where you make the shift from left to right side of the brain. Growing up in this world, we associate 'symbols' with everything we see. For instance, an eye has a shape, do does a face, hair etc. When we look at ourself in the mirror or look at a picture we never pay attention to the fact that our eyes are located halfway from our chin and forehead... This book will make you see the things the way they are and not they way you 'think' they are. Kudos to Betty, she taught me drawing from her book.
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Summary: A revelation!
Review: How I wish I had this book 17 years ago when I did high school art expecting to be taught to draw. I have gone from having absolutely no artistic talent whatsoever to drawing wonderful realistic pictures less than a week after picking the book up! And it was fun and easy. On the strength of my progress I have run off to enrol in a foundation course at art school.
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Summary: Betty Edwards:The new drawing on the right side of the brain
Review: This book is definitely onto something but it was too vague for me! I felt I was almost onto something but not quite. It all sounds good and reasonable but it is never concrete enough and much of it is about this meditation-type-thing. I may have got better by it but i haven't got good, and tapping into those so called resources that are already there never seem to happen for me. So in short; this book is onto something good but it's too vague. But it could have been that the norwegian translation was bad though, but i dont think so. But still, this may be the only one of its kind.
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Summary: Simply Amazing!
Review: The book shows some before and after drawings that are remarkable and then claims that these are "typical" results. That comment I found very hard to swallow, as I always thought of myself as suffering from artistic impairment. Then I read the book and did the excercises. To my own amazement, within 30 days, my results compared quite favorably to those pictured in the book. I am beginning to believe that I can actually draw. It is not a magic bullet, but a way to see what you draw and draw what you see.
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Summary: Learning how to draw is really about learning how to see
Review: There are those try to shroud the artistic process in mystery, Edwards book is a simple, straight forward approach to learning how to not only draw, but see. If you do the exercises in this book, you can learn to draw what you see. The most striking examples of this are the "before and after" drawings of her student. A side note - even "abstract" artist should master realism - sad truth is many so called artists do not have these skills.
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Summary: Outstanding Book
Review: Nothing in the drawing field comes close,
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Summary: Can Make An Artist Out Of Anyone!
Review: I made abstract art for two decades but it took this book, and a matching course I took at my local Ursuline College, to convince me that I could also learn realism. Today, I continue to improve in drawing recognizable people, a feat which used to be totally beyond me. This book shows you ways of tricking your brain into shifting sides so that you can "see" people and objects in the three dimensional world the way only a few "artistic" people otherwise seemed capable of seeing and then depicting.
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Summary: Brilliant!
Review: This is about drawing as a mind-expanding exercise, as a means of exercising your ability to see the world in new ways. Edwards has found that the adroit use of certain tricks can help people learn to switch their modes of perception at will.
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Summary: This is absolutely the best book on drawing in print
Review: I have a degree in commercial art and learned more about drawing from this book than I did in four years of undergraduate instruction. If you practice everyday what Ms. Edwards teaches you will be drawing as good as any professional artist in six months. This really is the best book on drawing ever published!
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