Right brain drawing is the most effective how-to-draw teaching method everRight Brain drawing methods were developed by Betty Edwards in the late 1960s / early 70s and immortalised in the best-selling drawing classic Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, published in 1979. Since then, right-brain drawing methods have been used all over the world to teach millions of people how to draw.
Betty Edwards’ Early ResearchYou can discover more about Betty Edwards’ early work on right brain drawing as a high school art teacher and how her confusion over why her students seemed unable to learn drawing like other skills led her to develop the most successful drawing method ever.
Read how Betty Edwards developed Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain... Betty’s questions regarding her students' struggles with drawing were answered in 1968 when Nobel Prize winning neurobiologist, Roger W Sperry published research showing that the two halves of the brain have very different yet specific functions.
This research proved to be a turning point as it explained the shift from our usual mode of thinking that Betty and her students had been experiencing in the drawing process. If you want to experience for yourself this "shift" that occurs when the left and right brain come into conflict try this quick exercise"Learning to draw means learning to see"Right brain drawing introduces us to the perceptual skills necessary to see things as they really are – and so be able to render them accurately in a pencil drawing.
With proper instruction the perceptual skills of drawing can be taught to anyone and they can be taught in a relatively short space of time. Betty Edwards developed a 5-day course (affectionately nicknamed “The Killer Class”) to teach Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. The 5-day course has been refined and developed over the years by Dr Edwards and her son, Brian Bomeisler. Brian worked closely with his mother revising and updating The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain as well as developing unique drawing tools based on those used by Renaissance artists to help beginning students. Find out more about Brian’s work here You can also sign up for our free newsletter Drawing Matters and be the first to hear about dates for new courses, what's new on the website, plus information about drawing-related matters and events. 
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Within two weeks of publication the book went to no. 1 on the New York Times bestseller charts and stayed there for a year and, with revised editions, has remained in print ever
since. It has sold over 2.5 million copies world-wide and been translated into 13 different languages.
