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3 unusual facts about Betty Edwards


Betty Edwards

It focuses on disregarding preconceived notions of what the drawn object should look like, and on individually "seeing" edges or lines, spaces, relationships, and lights and shadows, later combining them and seeing them as a whole, or gestalt.

Edwards's early work was based in part on her understanding of neuroscience, especially the cerebral hemisphere research which suggested that the two hemispheres of the brain have different functions.

Visual thinking

Betty Edwards (1979), Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain



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