A review by mangofandango
The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

informative inspiring slow-paced

2.75

The science in this book is obviously no longer exactly new and groundbreaking, and presumably it's wellllll out of date. But the theory is mostly something you can casually consider in broad terms while still trying to change the way you approach and think about drawing, and I think that's a fairly useful framework for trying things a different way. It was helpful to a point for me, and included some exercises I had done before in art classes but that are perennially useful to play with, like blind contour drawing and drawing what you literally see instead of what you imagine a thing to look like. It didn't unlock the secrets of drawing for me, but it did lead to some helpful experiments and a few things I will take with me as I try to not be tragically terrible at drawing.