Over twenty years ago Dr Betty Edwards developed a teaching method that would enable students to learn the five perceptual skills of drawing in as little as five days. These five skills form the global skill of drawing and once learned, like learning to read or drive a car, they are learnt for life.

Once you have learned these skills you will be able to draw anything - portraits, cats, dogs, the human figure, landscapes, architecture, hands, feet, still lifes... the list is endless. The method is the same it is only the complexity of your subject and the media that varies.

So perhaps you are looking for a new hobby, or maybe you have always just wished you could learn to draw; you might be studying art or perhaps you are a painter and want to brush up your drawing skills or simply express your ideas more creatively. You might not have picked up a pencil since you were in school. Whatever the reason, learning drawing can boost your creativity and confidence.

Explore the site to:

• Find out more about how your brain works and how you can consciously access it to make it work more effectively for you



• Experience the conflict that occurs when the right and left brain clash by trying out a left vs right brain exercise



• Read about Dr Edwards' tried and trusted methods and find out what occurs on each day of the Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course



• Read reviews and articles in the press and from personal blogs in What the Media Says



• See for yourself how others have developed their skills in just five days in Slideshow which shows visually how students progress as well as including photos from the course



• Visit Course Feedback to read comments and course accounts by participants who have taken the 5-day Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain course with Anna Black



• Find out where the next Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is taking place and sigh up to receive new course dates as soon as they are announced by visiting Drawing Courses


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• Discover how unique tools can help make all the difference when you are starting out. These are included in the Drawing Portfolio which is part of the 5-day Drawing Course



• Explore Drawing Resources to view works by Old Masters as well as more recent artists to inform and inspire your own work



• Try some of our tips and techniques

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