The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Chapters 1-8

While I have glossed over this book before, I'm going through again (and doing all the exercises) from Betty Edwards, The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain. I'll admit I'm skimming over most of the text (mostly because I've read it before, and the earliest chapters contain more principles I've heard time and time again in the past). But I can appreciate any artist at any skill level going back through the foundations, hence why I'm doing this now myself. The chapters I've gone through so far pertained to contours, negative spaces, and perspective (and a lot about preparing the reader for actual drawing, 'shifting' from left to right brain).

I really like this book. I can tell a lot of meticulous time and effort have gone into combing out and presenting every single aspect about the fundamentals of drawing, so much so that I believe that anyone who believed they couldn't draw put the effort into going through this entire book, would come out the end amazed. Then again, I don't think I have to attest to the importance of this book, since many artists and art educators have used its lessons for a long while. And while one certainly wouldn't need this book to grasp, what this book refers to as the five basic skills of drawing (edges, spaces, relationships, light & shadow, the gestalt - or whole), it certainly is packed neatly together in one place.

 Contour Drawing

Negative Space

Perspective Drawing using 'Sighting'

(I tried using color toning with a Prismacolor Art Stix I had laying around and was met with mixed results)