The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

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• mvaliente2001 · Mar 5, 2021 · Recommends

  "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence" by Betty Edwars. She taught drawing classes and discovered that one reason why people is bad at drawing is that they symbolize what they see…

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• mannicken · Sep 4, 2011 · Recommends

  …seeing the whole picture. Programming, on the other hand, seems to be a fairly analytical and logical activity that involves verbalizing logic in a programming language. I suggest starting out with "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" because if you try to approach design as you would approach programming it will look like a stick figure.

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• wallflower · Feb 14, 2009 · Mentions

  What do you think of this book? "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" by Betty Edwards. Has glowing testimonials like: "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…

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• mvaliente2001 · Feb 25, 2022 · Mentions

  Copying an old comment: "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: A Course in Enhancing Creativity and Artistic Confidence" by Betty Edwars. She taught drawing classes and discovered that one reason why people is bad at drawing is that they symbolize what they see…

  on “Ask HN: Anyone here have good material for learning how to sketch from scratch?” ↗
• bo_Olean · Oct 22, 2011 · Mentions

  "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain.", revised edition, '99.

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