How to be an artist.
Hi
From the time I was about 10, I wanted to be an artist. I went through High School and University mostly studying art and I even became a High School Art teacher. But in all the years of Art study I never really felt there was a method of teaching and learning Art.
I knew from my sports experience that a good coach had very specific drills and exercises to do. I had even studied bit of piano and knew from that there was a method of teaching music.
But I never experienced this in my Art training.
So you can imagine how excited I was when I finally discovered how to learn and teach Art.
It happened in 1983 or so. I was in an Art gallery and found a book called Learning How to Draw on the Right Side of the Brain.
To make a long story short. This was a great book on how to be an artist.
So I highly recommend it!
Here is a book review on it and a link to purchase it on Amazon.
Below this are a few other programs I recommend. Programs that will give you the skills you need to be a professional artist. Without professional skills you will NEVER be a professional. Remember that.
Get these and DO the exercises in these programs and you cant go wrong. You will learn how to be an artist faster then you every thought possible.
Let me know how you go.
Sandy Abbott
Artist and Art Educator
High School Teacher; Masters in Art Education
www.sandyabbott.com
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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
Illustrated with 12-page color photo insert and line art throughout
A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies.
When Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain was first published in 1979, it hit the New York Times bestseller list within two weeks and stayed there for more than a year. In 1989, when Dr. Betty Edwards revised the book, it went straight to the Times list again. Now Dr. Edwards celebrates the twentieth anniversary of her classic book with a second revised edition.
Over the last decade, Dr. Edwards has refined her material through teaching hundreds of workshops and seminars. Truly The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, this edition includes:
* the very latest developments in brain research;
* new material on using drawing techniques in the corporate world and in education;
* instruction on self-expression through drawing;
* an updated section on using color; and
* detailed information on using the five basic skills of drawing for problem solving.
Translated into thirteen languages, Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is the world's most widely used drawing-instruction guide. People from just about every walk of life--artists, students, corporate executives, architects, real estate agents, designers, engineers--have applied its revolutionary approach to problem solving. The Los Angeles Times said it best: Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is "not only a book about drawing, it is a book about living. This brilliant approach to the teaching of drawing . . . should not be dismissed as a mere text. It emancipates."
About the Author
Dr. Betty Edwards is Professor Emeritus in Art at California State University in Long Beach. She has been profiled by the Los Angeles Times, the Seattle Times, Reader's Digest, Timemagazine, New York magazine, Intuition magazine, and the Today show.
She speaks about the relationship of drawing to brain process at
universities, art schools, and major corporations, including IBM,
General Electric, and Disney. She lives in Santa Monica, California.
Here is the next program I recommend.
From The Desk Of Christopher Sia
Date: 10 October 2011
Dear Artist,
My name is Christopher Sia and for the past 5 years, I’ve been drawing pencil portraits and teaching thousands of my students to draw as well. Now you can learn how to be an artist.
I was a struggling so-called artist trying to learn how to draw realistic pencil portraits.
Obviously, I failed many times. But I never gave up.
I couldn’t even draw a decent pencil portrait because I wasn’t gifted in drawing.
I spent my hard-earned money from my part time job to attend drawing courses, but didn’t learn what I needed to achieve the realism of a masterful human pencil portrait.
I can still remember the first pencil portrait that I drew back in 2006, when I didn’t really understand how to attain my potential.
I thought it was nice so I shared it with all of my friends—but they laughed at my portrait drawing.
Until today, I still keep my first pencil portrait drawing on my drawing table.
Finally I know how to teach you how to be an artist. You can do it.
