I've got an MA in fine art, been practicing for years, and teach and I can tell anybody that there are thousands of practical art books out there but only a few worth having and Betty's books are certainly of the few.
I was that kid that drew all the time and am lucky enough to be a full time painter since 1992. I remember when Betty Edward's book came out- I was like "YES" this is how I see and this book is right on. I have since recommending this to many students and consider it the number one drawing book out there! Yes, more art in school- it saves lives and enhances your world.Thank you Betty!
I have used many of the exercises in this book to teach hundreds of high school students to draw over the last 10 years, they are useful and quick. Thank you for making my job easy and fun! I am so sorry for all the would be artists out there who have been embarrassed or traumatized by a misguided teacher. My apologies, I have endured many frustrated and\or bad teachers who have used shame, guilt or fear to motivate students. I have learned from them "how not to teach", I have learned how to teach drawing from Dr. Edwards, Thank You!
I am so happy I found her book 13 years ago. Put together what I learned from it and the results were great. I recommend it to any one who is interested in drawing. It is the best book I have found myself.
Shame and trauma I went through that , I was quite good at drawing growing up and I auditioned for an arts school and did not get in basically I felt I was not good enough to be accepted and stopped drawing which affected my creativity .. I needed to hear this ! thank you ! I will be purchasing the book !
I'm so glad Betty's message was helpful! I hope you get a chance to reconnect with your creativity and enjoy the process of making art. Good luck on the journey!
I took all kinds of courses and spent over $5,000 on Art Instruction Schools, but it wasn't until I got a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards that I was able to draw realistic portraits.
I have been drawing for 3 years, and was able to draw quite realistic portraits within 10 months. However, something I would do before, as a beginner, was drawing skulls, cause I liked them. Maybe this helped me. I also saw fast improvements when I switched from graphite to sanguine and other mediums. I'm glad you have improved in your craft
I was given 'drawing on the right side of the brain' as a gift this Christmas. I am a complete beginner and I've been utterly astounded by the rapid progress I made using this fantastic book. I've gone from drawing like a pre-schooler to something half decent in 12 days. Whether the explanation for why they work is 'true' or not the methods work.
Having fun listening to your conversation with a hero in teaching drawing, Betty Edwards. Drawn more into the dialogue with “Nicolades “Natural Drawing” and as well as Betty’s “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” . I use both of their tracings and recommend the to my students! Thank for sharing this delightful conversation!
🙏🙏🙏 *THANK YOU BETTY ! ! !* and *thank you Jessica* for this interview ... i actually listened to the other interview first. So glad Betty finished that one on the Dominant Eye. I bought a copy in 1989, after i came across it in the library ... it saved my confidence in myself as a creative person i just had changed my engineering course to architecture ... academically i was strong, but i couldn't draw well ... embarrassingly out of proportion, scale, perspective etc ... when i just followed the upside down exercise ... without thinking anything .... i drew a chair ... i was amazed i could draw ... i was so satisfied, it looked like 90% "right" after that i drew ... at a much slower pace ... concentrating on negative space ... and it all worked out .. drawing right side up ... this morning i am actually re-reading the book ... and i am amazed to discover that its actually a book about creativity and "*_seeing_*" things in another mode its more than just a "drawing book", as i had always thought it was ... i'll be trying to see how i can get myself into the R-mode first, and then shift into the L-mode to solve design problems ... (maybe draw something upside-down first) Betty's point about reading/comprehension & drawing/gestalt parallels ... is most interesting, because i often find on-site problems are best solved when i see the big-picture at the _SAME_ time thinking about the detailed problem at hand ... 😀
Thank you Betty Edwards for all the research you do. I feel so inspired. I ask the question 'does art hold the secret to world peace?' Another Eureka moment as I read your books. Thank you
Thank you Jessica for this interview. Some great questions and dialogue with Betty. Interesting, stimulating ideas and thoughts. Lovely to see and hear Betty too, her book opened life up for me and from time to time I return to it, to touch base and refreshment. Thanks to you both. Jay
Hello Jessica - I was sitting in my home here in Norway with Betty Edwards' book, Drawing on the Artist Within, which I read first time years ago, and I was thrilled to find your interview, - so informative and natural! I am currently writing a book on conflict (peace research), and this has led to me to "how we think". Betty Edwards' "positive shapes" and "negative spaces" fit perfectly with the notion of the opposite and complementary link between ourselves and the others around us: we are different and yet we have in common to depend on one another to be "defined" at all. Thanks again and good luck to both for coming ideas and workshops . Sashana
Thank you for the video. That was interesting what Betty said about her plans for a book about the dominant eye. I'm wondering about eyes and left or right hemisphere for a long time, since I'm blind in my right eye and I wonder if and what that means for my drawings. Asked people about it in the past but nobody can tell anything about it. By the way I drew in school and stopped drawing when I left school. 40 years later I started drawing again (digitally). No idea why it took me so long, but it feels like coming home 😛
Wonderful that you're drawing again! Definitely check out the other interview I did with Betty in my videos, she talks all about her book which was just published last year. I'm sure she'll cover some enlightening ideas since you're necessarily left eyed!
Hi , I have a question??Should I also buy the Work Book to get the most out of her book??? I'm going to buy Betty's Book "Drawing on the Right side of the brain". thank you , and great interview. Very interesting. I listened to this several times. :)
Hi Deborah, so glad you enjoyed the interview! I haven't tried the workbook, but I think it would be great to follow up with after you work through the original book. I believe there are dozens of drawing exercises in the workbook that could help you continue your studies after you finish Drawing on the Right Side. Also, if you would like feedback from a real teacher on your progess, join my online art school! We meet Tuesdays for critique, creative conversations, mini-lessons and drawing time, and membership also includes a monthly call with me. Check it out at school.jessicaantonelli.com, it would be fun to draw with you!
@@JessicaAntonelli thank you. I dont speak English very well but i understood most of the conversation. Great interview, by the way. Betty is changing my life with her books . Thanks again!
It was very informative interview. I wish to know more about the connection between the creative writing and the drawing. Because I can tell about myself that my left side of the brain is very active and I love to write... when I have inspiration. But I observed the process: I am imagining or day dreaming stuff - which on my opinion is Right Side of the Brain but in process of writing(which is probably Left Side of the Brain) I can recreate the words to new ideas(which is maybe some interchangeable connection between the two brains). In comparison with drawing I have some serious borders. I feel them that they are almost impenetrable. So I was wondering that this is maybe some inner talent or intuition which drive someone more to the writing, singing, drawing etc? And probably with time this struggle or inner resistance is gonna accept the whole new process.
Thanks! Yes, the connection between left/right can feel daydreamy or even mystical sometimes. The interchangeable connection you write about reminds me of a story of how Thomas Edison would harness the right-mode for invention ideas. He'd hold steel balls while taking a nap, so that he would stay in a creative (I'd say R-mode) twilight sleepiness, but wake up if he fell completely asleep because he'd drop the steel balls. Then he would grab a pen and paper and jot down any notes he got from this creative napping state of mind. Maybe you could try something similar for writing! As for the drive towards art, writing, singing, and other beautiful experiences, I don't thing talent is really what makes us called to do it. Society devalues these practices these days in favor of hard-work-and-no-fun, but I'd argue that these creative acts are the most ESSENTIAL part of what makes us human, and important for living a healthy, happy life! I believe we crave creativity because it is an inherent part of humanity. Creative problem solving and the discipline to follow through in the creative process are just as essential to our species survival as science and engineering and farming. So I wouldn't call it "talent" that calls us to a certain creative practice, I believe that the call is part of each individual's unique interests, experiences and predispositions that drive us toward expressing this essential part of being human. I just hesitate to call it talent because that implies a kind of automatic excellence that is inborn, and in the end discipline and practice are where mastery is born. I'm going off on my soapbox but thanks for your thoughtful comment! If you ever want to continue the conversation or try learning to draw, school.jessicaantonelli.com welcomes you :)
Jessica Antonelli i agree humanity must connect with heart which too thinks independently of mind. Global consciousness is colonised. Historical. Deliberate. Accepted ideology does not want the masses to see more than the sum of! I've just started this book and I know it's going to help me self develop and perhaps focus. I've still to watch the video. My attention span is short!! Thanks for your comment 💜 I experience euphoria when I paint and write poetry. I feel that I'm a vessel open to existing memory and that my art is prophetic then I switch to thinking I'm mad but art gives me hope and connection to God, Jesus, something bigger than me which I'm thankful for 🙏 we are the change by choosing to self develop our personality ✊ and to be love. Who chose what pre-birth? We are deliberately divided. Born into global historical lies we call society.
Another obstacle to drawing that Edwards deals with brilliantly by NOT addressing it is that highly motivated students want to work on all 5 of drawing's syntax elements simultaneously instead of sequentially. Usually drawing from photographs, they take on line, volume, shading, color and movement in one picture and then declare themselves devoid of talent. While precise color perception is indeed a major asset for a painter and may be congenital the way tonal hearing is for musicians, it is not essential to drawing. Just concentrate on line, volume, and shading and many useless discussions on talent fall by the wayside.
I taught art in public high school for about 5 years and then English-as-a-second- language, so I really appreciate Edwards' understanding of syntax and the parallels she draws between writing and drawing. Don't you just hate it when art education is viewed as something ''way out there'' , as if it had nothing to do with the academic curriculum?
Very, very interesting to listen to. 😊 I can't hear which artbook, B.E. refers to as inspirational. Can you please tell me? 🙏 Thank you, love from Denmark
@@JessicaAntonelli Thank you so much! I'm actually watching your interview with B.E. right now 😁 And so glad she "took the fight" with her mind, and wrote it 😄
Lol, this is a common question! I encourage students to avoid using rulers when getting started unless you are drawing perspective. It tends to keep you in the analytic, numbers and langauge, left side of the brain thinking. You will also loose the chance to get stronger at drawing straighter lines freehand! Gotta use those fine hand muscles or you will lose them. Have fun drawing!
@@JessicaAntonelli thank you for answering! Makes perfect sense:) I’m on page 106 and about to make a view finder. I read ahead in the instructions and just curious, are we supposed to draw from a one time viewing? If not, once we put view finder down is getting it exactly where it was before an issue? I’ve never even considered the negative space a shape! Mind blown (again)!
@@dorothygladsjo3510 No it is not a one-time viewing, and getting the viewfinder back in the original spot is a skill in itself. Some people hold their arm all the way out and lock their elbow to make sure the viewfinder always stays at the same distance from the eye. I like to use a landmark so that I know the top left corner is always at X spot, for example. It's a little tricky at first but you'll get the hang of it!
I remember how the public school system pretty much shut down my right side of my brain, I was in 3rd grade and I remember drawing one of Donald Duck kids and it was an exact copy, the teacher came by and gave me a thumbs down and I was hurt deeply, also they had paddles back then, they will paddled you to submission and they go tell my parents and they will spanked me, oh boy, I hated school since, now I'm trying to figure out how to get it back, I can't just start drawing and not feel anything, it's gotta be alive or have meaning, thanks for letting me rant.
Ouch! So sorry that you had such a traumatic experience in art classes :( Sounds like you will have some expressive art with all the feeling you are putting into it now!
@@JessicaAntonelli yes, once I get my creative juices flowing, I'm not letting it go ever, but for now, I just keep hammering at it knowing it will come
When I was in 3rd grade the teacher told us to draw with our crayons with no instruction. I think it was just a time killer between standard testing. A kid I’ll call Johnny drew a nice sunset over water. The rest of us clearly recognized Johnny’s sunset was pleasing, and we all attempted to copy it. The teacher went bat crazy on us, screaming that we weren’t creating our own pictures. I never drew again until age 55. I first started with pencil coloring books, then paint party style RUclips tutorials with traceables, and began to think, “I can draw this.” From there I began to freehand copy the simple traceables, and have tried, with beginner success, portraiture. It’s such a shame teachers often ruin curiosity and simple joy in children instead of inspiring.
I used to spend all my time drawing when I was a teenager but high school really killed my love for it. I was creating model designs and posters when I was 15 and earning lots of money. My art teacher approached art from a left hemisphere perspective. I would sometimes used cotton to soften my values and she told me it was cheating and forbid me to do it. She was more concerned with the written explanation for my drawings than the subjective encounter with my work and appreciation of skill and imagination. She downgraded me all the way to my final exams but when my work was looked at by the examiner I got the highest mark possible. I haven’t drawn for over 20 years. My society has no need for artists, they have the ultimate left hemisphere tool, A.I. Have you ever noticed the similarities between schizophrenic patients drawings and A.I art? Multiple fingers, multiple teeth. Schizophrenia is a right hemisphere deficit disorder, there is something going on there. Great interview by the way. Have a lovely weekend.
She is a National Treasure !!!!
Agreed.
I've got an MA in fine art, been practicing for years, and teach and I can tell anybody that there are thousands of practical art books out there but only a few worth having and Betty's books are certainly of the few.
What are the other ones? Thanks.
Please answer those books names. 😊
I was that kid that drew all the time and am lucky enough to be a full time painter since 1992. I remember when Betty Edward's book came out- I was like "YES" this is how I see and this book is right on. I have since recommending this to many students and consider it the number one drawing book out there! Yes, more art in school- it saves lives and enhances your world.Thank you Betty!
I'm glad the system didn't get to you as it did to many others.
I have used many of the exercises in this book to teach hundreds of high school students to draw over the last 10 years, they are useful and quick. Thank you for making my job easy and fun! I am so sorry for all the would be artists out there who have been embarrassed or traumatized by a misguided teacher. My apologies, I have endured many frustrated and\or bad teachers who have used shame, guilt or fear to motivate students. I have learned from them "how not to teach", I have learned how to teach drawing from Dr. Edwards, Thank You!
I am so happy I found her book 13 years ago. Put together what I learned from it and the results were great. I recommend it to any one who is interested in drawing. It is the best book I have found myself.
You are the fire that brings out the warmth in Betty... You create the atmosphere in which she can shine... Your students are blessed.
Shame and trauma I went through that , I was quite good at drawing growing up and I auditioned for an arts school and did not get in basically I felt I was not good enough to be accepted and stopped drawing which affected my creativity .. I needed to hear this ! thank you ! I will be purchasing the book !
I'm so glad Betty's message was helpful! I hope you get a chance to reconnect with your creativity and enjoy the process of making art. Good luck on the journey!
Thank you for this and to Betty Edwards for this wonderful Book!
Thank you, I have used and taught from this book for years and it is really nice to hear from Betty in person!
I took all kinds of courses and spent over $5,000 on Art Instruction Schools, but it wasn't until I got a copy of Drawing on the Right Side of The Brain by Betty Edwards that I was able to draw realistic portraits.
I have been drawing for 3 years, and was able to draw quite realistic portraits within 10 months.
However, something I would do before, as a beginner, was drawing skulls, cause I liked them. Maybe this helped me. I also saw fast improvements when I switched from graphite to sanguine and other mediums. I'm glad you have improved in your craft
Excellent interview. Charming! So glad I got to watch this. Thx so much. 🥰
I was given 'drawing on the right side of the brain' as a gift this Christmas. I am a complete beginner and I've been utterly astounded by the rapid progress I made using this fantastic book. I've gone from drawing like a pre-schooler to something half decent in 12 days. Whether the explanation for why they work is 'true' or not the methods work.
Having fun listening to your conversation with a hero in teaching drawing, Betty Edwards. Drawn more into the dialogue with “Nicolades “Natural Drawing” and as well as Betty’s “Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain” . I use both of their tracings and recommend the to my students! Thank for sharing this delightful conversation!
So glad to have you here Victoria! Nicolaides and Betty make a killer combo as artistic guides!
Great book and great teacher, thank you!
🙏🙏🙏 *THANK YOU BETTY ! ! !* and *thank you Jessica* for this interview ... i actually listened to the other interview first. So glad Betty finished that one on the Dominant Eye.
I bought a copy in 1989, after i came across it in the library ... it saved my confidence in myself as a creative person
i just had changed my engineering course to architecture ... academically i was strong, but i couldn't draw well ... embarrassingly out of proportion, scale, perspective etc ...
when i just followed the upside down exercise ... without thinking anything .... i drew a chair ... i was amazed i could draw ... i was so satisfied, it looked like 90% "right"
after that i drew ... at a much slower pace ... concentrating on negative space ... and it all worked out .. drawing right side up ...
this morning i am actually re-reading the book ... and i am amazed to discover that its actually a book about creativity and "*_seeing_*" things in another mode
its more than just a "drawing book", as i had always thought it was ...
i'll be trying to see how i can get myself into the R-mode first, and then shift into the L-mode to solve design problems ... (maybe draw something upside-down first)
Betty's point about reading/comprehension & drawing/gestalt parallels ... is most interesting, because i often find on-site problems
are best solved when i see the big-picture at the _SAME_ time thinking about the detailed problem at hand ... 😀
Thank you Betty Edwards for all the research you do. I feel so inspired. I ask the question 'does art hold the secret to world peace?' Another Eureka moment as I read your books. Thank you
What an amazing video,I laughed aloud many times.
i’m 16, currently learning off her book.. i love this lady
@@aiyla2008 you're on the right path and following a great guide!
Thank you Jessica for this interview. Some great questions and dialogue with Betty. Interesting, stimulating ideas and thoughts.
Lovely to see and hear Betty too, her book opened life up for me and from time to time I return to it, to touch base and refreshment. Thanks to you both. Jay
Brilliant interview!
Great interview! Betty Edwards what a hero!
Great conversation. Thanks for sharing.
PS: Thank you, also, for the subtle recommendation of Nicolaides "The Natural Way to Draw" :-)
Great interview - Thanks to both of you!
Hello Jessica - I was sitting in my home here in Norway with Betty Edwards' book, Drawing on the Artist Within, which I read first time years ago, and I was thrilled to find your interview, - so informative and natural! I am currently writing a book on conflict (peace research), and this has led to me to "how we think". Betty Edwards' "positive shapes" and "negative spaces" fit perfectly with the notion of the opposite and complementary link between ourselves and the others around us: we are different and yet we have in common to depend on one another to be "defined" at all. Thanks again and good luck to both for coming ideas and workshops . Sashana
Loved watching this video ❤👍🏼😃
Thank you for the video. That was interesting what Betty said about her plans for a book about the dominant eye. I'm wondering about eyes and left or right hemisphere for a long time, since I'm blind in my right eye and I wonder if and what that means for my drawings. Asked people about it in the past but nobody can tell anything about it. By the way I drew in school and stopped drawing when I left school. 40 years later I started drawing again (digitally). No idea why it took me so long, but it feels like coming home 😛
Wonderful that you're drawing again! Definitely check out the other interview I did with Betty in my videos, she talks all about her book which was just published last year. I'm sure she'll cover some enlightening ideas since you're necessarily left eyed!
Excellent and insightful interview
Hi , I have a question??Should I also buy the Work Book to get the most out of her book??? I'm going to buy Betty's Book "Drawing on the Right side of the brain". thank you , and great interview. Very interesting. I listened to this several times. :)
Hi Deborah, so glad you enjoyed the interview! I haven't tried the workbook, but I think it would be great to follow up with after you work through the original book. I believe there are dozens of drawing exercises in the workbook that could help you continue your studies after you finish Drawing on the Right Side.
Also, if you would like feedback from a real teacher on your progess, join my online art school! We meet Tuesdays for critique, creative conversations, mini-lessons and drawing time, and membership also includes a monthly call with me. Check it out at school.jessicaantonelli.com, it would be fun to draw with you!
@@JessicaAntonelli Thank you for the information. I will check out your art classes. :)
I quit drawing in elementary school after being told I had no "talent". Happily I tried again in later life...I can draw, paint, creat.
Wich was the educational book Betty named?
We spoke about The Natural Way to Draw by Nicolaides, and her book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain :)
@@JessicaAntonelli thank you. I dont speak English very well but i understood most of the conversation. Great interview, by the way. Betty is changing my life with her books . Thanks again!
It was very informative interview. I wish to know more about the connection between the creative writing and the drawing. Because I can tell about myself that my left side of the brain is very active and I love to write... when I have inspiration. But I observed the process: I am imagining or day dreaming stuff - which on my opinion is Right Side of the Brain but in process of writing(which is probably Left Side of the Brain) I can recreate the words to new ideas(which is maybe some interchangeable connection between the two brains). In comparison with drawing I have some serious borders. I feel them that they are almost impenetrable. So I was wondering that this is maybe some inner talent or intuition which drive someone more to the writing, singing, drawing etc? And probably with time this struggle or inner resistance is gonna accept the whole new process.
Thanks! Yes, the connection between left/right can feel daydreamy or even mystical sometimes. The interchangeable connection you write about reminds me of a story of how Thomas Edison would harness the right-mode for invention ideas. He'd hold steel balls while taking a nap, so that he would stay in a creative (I'd say R-mode) twilight sleepiness, but wake up if he fell completely asleep because he'd drop the steel balls. Then he would grab a pen and paper and jot down any notes he got from this creative napping state of mind. Maybe you could try something similar for writing!
As for the drive towards art, writing, singing, and other beautiful experiences, I don't thing talent is really what makes us called to do it. Society devalues these practices these days in favor of hard-work-and-no-fun, but I'd argue that these creative acts are the most ESSENTIAL part of what makes us human, and important for living a healthy, happy life! I believe we crave creativity because it is an inherent part of humanity. Creative problem solving and the discipline to follow through in the creative process are just as essential to our species survival as science and engineering and farming. So I wouldn't call it "talent" that calls us to a certain creative practice, I believe that the call is part of each individual's unique interests, experiences and predispositions that drive us toward expressing this essential part of being human. I just hesitate to call it talent because that implies a kind of automatic excellence that is inborn, and in the end discipline and practice are where mastery is born.
I'm going off on my soapbox but thanks for your thoughtful comment! If you ever want to continue the conversation or try learning to draw, school.jessicaantonelli.com welcomes you :)
Jessica Antonelli i agree humanity must connect with heart which too thinks independently of mind. Global consciousness is colonised. Historical. Deliberate. Accepted ideology does not want the masses to see more than the sum of! I've just started this book and I know it's going to help me self develop and perhaps focus. I've still to watch the video. My attention span is short!! Thanks for your comment 💜 I experience euphoria when I paint and write poetry. I feel that I'm a vessel open to existing memory and that my art is prophetic then I switch to thinking I'm mad but art gives me hope and connection to God, Jesus, something bigger than me which I'm thankful for 🙏 we are the change by choosing to self develop our personality ✊ and to be love. Who chose what pre-birth? We are deliberately divided. Born into global historical lies we call society.
thank you!
Another obstacle to drawing that Edwards deals with brilliantly by NOT addressing it is that highly motivated students want to work on all 5 of drawing's syntax elements simultaneously instead of sequentially. Usually drawing from photographs, they take on line, volume, shading, color and movement in one picture and then declare themselves devoid of talent. While precise color perception is indeed a major asset for a painter and may be congenital the way tonal hearing is for musicians, it is not essential to drawing. Just concentrate on line, volume, and shading and many useless discussions on talent fall by the wayside.
I taught art in public high school for about 5 years and then English-as-a-second- language, so I really appreciate Edwards' understanding of syntax and the parallels she draws between writing and drawing. Don't you just hate it when art education is viewed as something ''way out there'' , as if it had nothing to do with the academic curriculum?
Very, very interesting to listen to. 😊
I can't hear which artbook, B.E. refers to as inspirational. Can you please tell me? 🙏
Thank you, love from Denmark
I believe it was Nicolaides "The Natural Way to Draw," and Dr. Edwards has sonce published another book, Drawing on the Dominant Eye, very cool!
@@JessicaAntonelli Thank you so much!
I'm actually watching your interview with B.E. right now 😁 And so glad she "took the fight" with her mind, and wrote it 😄
Very well done
I love ❤ how you compared drawing to meditation queen 👸
26:37 Hi, what is the name of this book?
The Natural Way to Draw by Kimon Nicolaides. I have more videos on my channel if you like :)
Question: if I were to use a pencil with ruler marks on it would that be cheating?…using my left side of my brain?
Lol, this is a common question! I encourage students to avoid using rulers when getting started unless you are drawing perspective. It tends to keep you in the analytic, numbers and langauge, left side of the brain thinking. You will also loose the chance to get stronger at drawing straighter lines freehand! Gotta use those fine hand muscles or you will lose them. Have fun drawing!
@@JessicaAntonelli thank you for answering! Makes perfect sense:)
I’m on page 106 and about to make a view finder. I read ahead in the instructions and just curious, are we supposed to draw from a one time viewing? If not, once we put view finder down is getting it exactly where it was before an issue?
I’ve never even considered the negative space a shape! Mind blown (again)!
@@dorothygladsjo3510 No it is not a one-time viewing, and getting the viewfinder back in the original spot is a skill in itself. Some people hold their arm all the way out and lock their elbow to make sure the viewfinder always stays at the same distance from the eye. I like to use a landmark so that I know the top left corner is always at X spot, for example. It's a little tricky at first but you'll get the hang of it!
@@JessicaAntonelli thanks again!
I remember how the public school system pretty much shut down my right side of my brain, I was in 3rd grade and I remember drawing one of Donald Duck kids and it was an exact copy, the teacher came by and gave me a thumbs down and I was hurt deeply, also they had paddles back then, they will paddled you to submission and they go tell my parents and they will spanked me, oh boy, I hated school since, now I'm trying to figure out how to get it back, I can't just start drawing and not feel anything, it's gotta be alive or have meaning, thanks for letting me rant.
Ouch! So sorry that you had such a traumatic experience in art classes :( Sounds like you will have some expressive art with all the feeling you are putting into it now!
@@JessicaAntonelli yes, once I get my creative juices flowing, I'm not letting it go ever, but for now, I just keep hammering at it knowing it will come
When I was in 3rd grade the teacher told us to draw with our crayons with no instruction. I think it was just a time killer between standard testing. A kid I’ll call Johnny drew a nice sunset over water. The rest of us clearly recognized Johnny’s sunset was pleasing, and we all attempted to copy it. The teacher went bat crazy on us, screaming that we weren’t creating our own pictures. I never drew again until age 55. I first started with pencil coloring books, then paint party style RUclips tutorials with traceables, and began to think, “I can draw this.” From there I began to freehand copy the simple traceables, and have tried, with beginner success, portraiture. It’s such a shame teachers often ruin curiosity and simple joy in children instead of inspiring.
I used to spend all my time drawing when I was a teenager but high school really killed my love for it. I was creating model designs and posters when I was 15 and earning lots of money. My art teacher approached art from a left hemisphere perspective. I would sometimes used cotton to soften my values and she told me it was cheating and forbid me to do it. She was more concerned with the written explanation for my drawings than the subjective encounter with my work and appreciation of skill and imagination. She downgraded me all the way to my final exams but when my work was looked at by the examiner I got the highest mark possible. I haven’t drawn for over 20 years. My society has no need for artists, they have the ultimate left hemisphere tool, A.I. Have you ever noticed the similarities between schizophrenic patients drawings and A.I art? Multiple fingers, multiple teeth. Schizophrenia is a right hemisphere deficit disorder, there is something going on there. Great interview by the way. Have a lovely weekend.
@@robertwhiteley-yv1sy so sorry you had such a a traumatizing art teacher! What a shame, hope you can still revisit creativity for your own enjoyment!
PSS: learn.10stepstodrawing.com did not work. Just a message: "This domain is not yet registered with Mighty Networks."
Thanks John! It changed to school.jessicaantonelli.com, do check it out!