>Have you had a look at 'Drawing on the right side of the >brain' by Betty Edwards?
Is there any other decent book on drawing? (Rhetorical question of course) That is the book I have always recommended to people (though I do think that the first version is a great improvement on those that followed). There is a first stage that you have to get passed and I know the reaction I would get if I asked some of my classes to start drawing - people who want to be able to draw take to Edwards readilybut I am not sure about those who don't want to draw or are frightened to try. >I also strongly recommend getting people to do things like >drawing or painting to reach the parts of the brain that other >careers can't reach. I used to set an exercise for one of my coursesd where the students had to pick something they had always wanted to learn to do and go out and actually do it. The students who did it always found it immensely helpful. >If you have a load of reticent sketchers who can't draw, won't >draw, maybe you could have a fallback of sewing, or stringing >beads together, or a percussion-and-saxophone jam session, or >singing the 'Free Software Song' around a burning pile of GIF images: I do an exercise where they all make paper aeroplanes which is fun and works well. (They have to write the instructions for how to make a paper aeroplane using no diagrams, and then they swop the instructions around and try to follow someone else's instructions) L. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List (discuss@ppig.org) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
