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How To Unlock Your Hidden Artistic Talent |
 Jun 5 2008, 07:37 AM
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Ok - so this isn't a book on tattooing or an 'art' book as such but if you're wanting to improve your creative ability/ analytical/ observational drawing skills it's the book for you!
'Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - How to unlock your hidden artistic talent', Betty Edwards, Fontana/Collins Betty Edwards teachings are based on brain research which shows that after early childhood most of us develop our left, verbal hemispheres at the expense of the visual side - in the book (there's a newer work book as well) there's simple tasks that only the right hand side can do, by doing these drawing tasks it increases your awareness of this shift from the l-side to r-side so it makes it easier to switch to the right hemisphere or creative side when you are drawing. it's really not as complex as it may sound,i'm only like halfway through the book and (i think) it's already helping... |
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Jun 5 2008, 01:06 PM
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or walk around backwards for 40mins a day.... if you survive that for more than 3 weeks it works the same way... and its free lol
-------------------- Nosferatu1812@yahoo.com
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Jun 5 2008, 03:22 PM
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i'm reading it right now... damn good
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Jun 6 2008, 12:51 AM
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i've read/used this in high school. It's really good.
you draw images upside down, not looking at them, contour drawing, grid drawing. all very good. I works too. |
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 Jun 6 2008, 03:11 AM
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QUOTE (Noz1812 @ Jun 5 2008, 10:06 PM)  or walk around backwards for 40mins a day.... if you survive that for more than 3 weeks it works the same way... and its free lol whaaa?.... |
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Jun 6 2008, 08:08 AM
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sounds good I'll be ordering that, thanks for the rec....
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Jun 6 2008, 05:05 PM
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QUOTE (Satan'sLiver @ Jun 6 2008, 03:51 AM) i've read/used this in high school. It's really good. you draw images upside down, not looking at them, contour drawing, grid drawing. all very good. I works too. upside down and what not eh? that's funny because i do that on a regular basis on my own and have found it actually allows you to look at the picture more as shapes and i especially focus on my 'everything is a line' thinking. especially portraits from pictures and what not. i'll have to check this book out. sounds good. |
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Jun 7 2008, 08:39 AM
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QUOTE (ddevil54r @ Jun 7 2008, 02:05 AM) upside down and what not eh? that's funny because i do that on a regular basis on my own and have found it actually allows you to look at the picture more as shapes and i especially focus on my 'everything is a line' thinking. especially portraits from pictures and what not. i'll have to check this book out. sounds good. sounds like you've read the book already ;-) funny you should say that, there's been a couple of instances in the book when i've thought 'wow i've been having similar thoughts myself' - i see it as no bad thing! yeah, i definately recomend it to everyone, i've read a lot of art theory/techinique books but this one's been the most straightforward and helpfull one so far, i got mine for £3.50 from amazon used books - what a bargin!!! |
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Jun 7 2008, 09:52 AM
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im gonna take some acid tonight, maybe thatll unlock the creative side!
-------------------- I haven't failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.[http://www.facebook.com/p/Marc_Chislett/623005117
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Jun 7 2008, 04:09 PM
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I just got a copy from my pops.
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Jun 30 2008, 06:40 PM
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looks interesting, and its dirt cheap on ebay... thanks for the heads up.
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Jul 1 2008, 12:46 AM
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Seen that book before... very helpful... I remember learning stuff from there in my high shcool art classes like 20 some years ago and I still use those techniques... highly recommended...
-------------------- Push the needle in... Now there's no return...
http://www.myspace.com/davethewicked http://forum.ink-trails.com/gallery-user1732-album213.html •()WìÇKëÐ[::::::::::::> |
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Aug 9 2008, 09:16 AM
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Yeah, I'm in the middle of reading this at the moment, my mum mentioned that she thought she had 2 copies, so when I was there a week ago I had a dig. She'd been telling me about it for years, she first discovered a long time back when she bought it for a creative friend who'd had a stroke. It's interesting on so many levels, the whole Right brain, Left brain thing, it makes so much sense and as others have said, it articulates so well things that you stumble across, just not so well defined! It's all about perception as the key, I can remember my tutors saying that most people spent more time looking at their paper than the subject and that most draw what they think they see rather than what's actually in front of them and this is all about getting around those mistakes
I really heavily recommend this book for everyone, it's indespensible...giving me confidence that I may be able to do a little adult art class teaching, at some point in the future, I've had opportunities in the past but didn't feel I'd be able to communicate the "secrets" of how to draw, etc...the book really gives you the means and a method to unlock potential and bypass blocks. Gonna be giving it a go on my GF, she's hugely creative, ideas wise but not a great drawer -------------------- "He who reads Yesterday's Papers" AKA SlowStorm
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Aug 9 2008, 02:22 PM
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I got it a while back and burned through it in a couple days.... I would definitely recommend it.
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Aug 11 2008, 06:01 PM
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Someone else on this site recommended it to me.
Then tonight at the art store I saw it there...but I had $40 of prismacolors in my hand so I decided against it. Later tonight, saw other tattoo artists on another forum recommend it. So yeah, I def, and everyone should get it! It's everywhere! |
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Aug 11 2008, 10:44 PM
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Great book, I used the pages to roll a few... and WOW, did my creative juices flow after the first chapter!
LOL... Kidding... It took two chapters... Kidding... I don't roll... Kidding... I do roll... Kidding... I rolled the whole book, and never got creative. Haha... Seriously, I find that I am more creative when lucid, non-drug related, and at night when CO2 saturates the air. (Mild suffocation, which causes most normal people to fall asleep.) I find that my glasses, and eating fish, and natural speeds (Caffeine, ginseng, gurana, sugar), all decrease my creative side and throw me into "The thinker" mode. (Not sure why my glasses being on, has that impact. Might have to do with distraction. I see a larger clear picture with my glasses on, and the activity distracts me. With my glasses off, everything becomes a haze-blur, except what is directly in front of me. Usually that is a drawing.) I will look at the book, since you have taken the time to make a post. You captured my interest. |
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Aug 12 2008, 12:20 AM
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I've got to go find me a copy...you're all making me curious.
-------------------- "Creating solutions for crowd rape since 2008"
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Aug 12 2008, 02:15 AM
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i did most of the excersizes in that book throughout my grammar school and junior highsschool days, probably cuz the art teachers all knew about those techniques, cuz they are fairly basic building blocks in any illustrating art course. i suppose that book could be usefull to someone who was not privy to many art courses in school or college, but like i said its mostly basics, generally just ways to perceive objects in a different way. you've probably done some of them unconsciensly if you draw alot.
-------------------- Love it or Leave it...
check my portfolio @ http://www.myspace.com/sioneproduktions |
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Aug 12 2008, 02:34 AM
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Is it like seeing things as a series of lines?
-------------------- "Creating solutions for crowd rape since 2008"
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Aug 12 2008, 10:13 AM
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It uses line/contour drawing as a means to make the shift from left to right brain modes, which is essentially what the whole thing is about...shifting your consciousness, bypassing the language/symbol based Left side to access the direct perception of the Right side and really draw what you see, exactly as you see it. One of the main themes is drawing something indirectly, through drawing the negative spaces around it, or the shape next to it, that can't be named, again to sidestep falling into the use of our brain's ingrained set of symbols, for everyday objects, facial features, hands, etc.
I have to say I think Savi's being a little dismissive of it, I went through 5 years of Higher Education in Art & Design and I don't remember (it was some years back, lol!) being taught anything as useful, or well articulated as most of this book (or maybe, I was too young, or stoned to care, at the time  ). Saying that I would blatantly lift large parts of it now, if I was to teach a class.
-------------------- "He who reads Yesterday's Papers" AKA SlowStorm
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