Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain

A life-changing book, this fully revised and updated edition of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is destined to inspire generations of readers and artists to come.

Translated into more than seventeen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world’s most widely used instructional drawing book. Whether you are drawing as a professional artist, as an artist in training, or as a hobby, this book will give you greater confidence in your ability and deepen your artistic perception, as well as foster a new appreciation of the world around you.

The fourth edition includes: a new introduction, crucial updates based on recent research on the brain’s plasticity, a new focus on how the ability to draw on the strengths of the right hemisphere can serve as an antidote to the increasing left-brain emphasis in American life, an informative section that addresses recent research linking early childhood “scribbling” to later language development and the importance of parental encouragement of this activity, and new reproductions of master drawings throughout.

Paperback, 320 pages.