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

Editorial Review
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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Customer Reviews

A Useful Companion to the Book Itself

2008-03-15
This Workbook is a companion to The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and is a useful accompaniment to the book itself. It is spiral-bound so it lays flat and is easy to draw on, includes one drawing sheet for each exercise, and VERY usefully, includes a plastic "viewing pane" as recommended in the book.

One slight drawback (for me -- maybe an advantage for some) is that it repeats instructions for all the exercises in the main textbook itself, and includes fewer supplementary exercises than I had hoped. Also, with only one drawing sheet for each exercise you're probably going to want to buy a drawing pad anyway.

All in all, I highly recommend you buy "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain" book first, try a few exercises, and if you like them and see progress, then buy the "Workbook". (You won't need the viewing pane until later exercises).

All in all, a worthwhile investment if the book seems to be helping you.

Disappointed

2008-02-12
I expected something more and insightful than the original book but it's pretty much the same thing. The book could actually be half its thickness since half of it is blank pages where you're supposed to draw.

some overlap from her other books, still a great book

2008-02-03
Yes there is some overlap from her previous books, it's still a great book. I went from drawing very poorly- and over 40 books that supposedly taught one how to draw- to using her text, and being able to turn out very high quality art, that is very satisfactory to me, and to others. I checked this book today because I am sending this book to a guy who works with poor children in Caracas, Venezuela, for his use. For what books and postage cost now, I would never waste my money on anything less than the best available.

Excellent book

2007-12-28
This book will teach even the poorest artist how to see and how to draw what you see. It is an excellent book. I would suggest it for anyone interested in learning how to draw. You do not have to have "talent" to learn the skill!

drawing

2007-02-03
Companion to reading. A must have for anyone who just likes to draw.

Skilled Drawing

2008-05-21
This is a very fine guide for learning to draw, understanding the principles of drawing, and practicing drawing in a practical way/

Brilliant

2008-05-15
Great book for those of us with a creative bent but not sure how to proceed. Recommended by Daniel Pink.

drawing workbook

2008-04-05
i have read the book drawing on the right side of the brain. what this book is can be also taken right out of the original book. it is just more of what it says a work book. or you could just use some drawing pad to do the exercises in it. It takes out of the book the lessons, so save your money and just by the book. which by the way actually is also a very useful book to learn and understand drawing . It is not that it is a bad book, it is just wiser to save your money and buy the actual book to read itself. everything in the workbook is taken from the reading book.

New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain Workbook:

2008-04-05
This is a good guide for students and a great-abbreviated version of the full-length instruction book. It makes it easy to keep a record of your progress especially if you are not interested in keeping a journal while you are learning to draw.

Cracking the wall

2008-03-26
I have a family that is full of artists, and always felt really sad that I couldn't draw even a stick figure! A little while ago I realised something important - that drawing is a form of literacy, like writing, and so many of us don't make it past kindergarten.

Visual communication is really under-rated in our school systems, which pretty much relegates most of us to the category of 'non-drawers'. Betty Edwards' book changes that!

The work book is really all you need, although if you would like to go into the reasons behind her book, then the text is great. I bought both and am very glad I did.

I am only part-way through the workbook, but it's amazing to see what can be produced in such a short time. If you want to climb that wall that has been bordering in your creativity, then I can't recommend this book highly enough!