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The exercises are good and do help release and train your creativity and are designed to improve your "vision" of the surrounding world, and in this it succeeds. I do have her original book and her "new" Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, and each time I picked them up I found the exercises useful but was quite turned off by her fairly incessant, and often physiologically incorrect, psychobabble. Now this exercise book provides you with her exercises largely shorn of the right brain/left brain psychobabble. The workbook has blank pages left for you to draw in the book itself, which is useful since it leaves you with a permanent record of your progress. I do wish they had used better drawing paper for those pages, but then I can be fussy about my materials and since many art students use newsprint for their practice exercises and since the book is meant as a set of exercises rather than as finished art work, I guess I am nitpicking here.
Betty Edwards leads the reader through steps that (if followed carefully) can enable one to "see". I have taken many classes in drawing. I have learned that one really learns how to draw when one learns how to "see". I have used this book in a fifth grade classroom with remarkable results. If one looks at objects the way Betty Edwards suggests, one can "feel" one's mind "shift" to the right side.
This workbook is very helpful for teaching this course. I will be teaching at an academy of Lifelong learning in the fall and look forward to my students having this book in hand (literally) to get the most out of the course.
This workbook gives space to draw what you are learning. I would highly recommend buying the workbook to go with the book. There are clear and concise instructions to help us learn to draw on the right side of our brain and how to overcome the left side that is constantly trying to conflict our thoughts and attempts to draw. I think anyone can learn to draw with the help of this workbook as well as the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. It is an invaluable tool. Excellent job.
If you think you can't draw, just get this book and workbook and learn how. Betty Edwards presents an excellent process of learning to see - in order to draw. Get this combo and start drawing today.
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