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Great books for cranking up your creativity
Great books for bolstering your imagination, cranking up your creativity, and skyrocketing your "Idea Generating Quotient".
You'll find all sorts of books that can help get you excited about drawing, about increasing your creativity, and your artistic production. Find books that'll help you remove the stumbling blocks to getting started and some just plain fun books on caricatures and cartoons. Please feel free to recommend any books you think would be helpful. Enjoy.
My number one Highest Recommended Book:
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Dr. Betty Edwards "Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". If I could make this required reading, I would! Not because I get a small fee for selling it, but because it's the source book for the foundation's of drawing skills (the "5 skills") It chronicle's breakthrough research in neuro-physiology and how it literally affects the way we see the world. |
| Dr. Edwards' landmark book is also a fascinating reference companion that can only add depth and insight to your drawing experience. You'll be convinced anybody can learn to draw - including you. | |
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by Lenn Redman 0809256851 |
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The
Complete Book of Caricature By Bob Staake |
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For those of you having trouble getting started drawing, (or any art, craft, discipline, even entrepeneuring ) I highly recommend this book. Ms. Cameron outlines a 12 week guided, intensive program where you'll start from scratch getting to the root of your hesitation and rediscovering your own gifts. |
| The program is built around the daily discipline of morning writing and a weekly "artist's date". Simple prescription with powerful results. Probing and insightful. Julia Cameron's "The Artist Way" | |
"The Einstein Factor"
To order press Einstein Factor
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by Win Wenger, Richard Poe (contributor) Drawing is a visual function. And just like Betty Edwards explains so well in her book above, drawing is away to tap into the whole other, largely forgotten, mostly unconscious part of our brain. Drawing is one road to it. |
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In the Einstein Factor, author Wenger details powerful exercises he's worked decades developing. By studying Albert Einsteins letters, laboratory notes and habits, Wenger aims (and succeeds) at uncovering clues about the way Einstein's brain works, how other great thinkers come up with their ideas - and how you and I can benefit from what he's uncovered. I like this book because it shows you all the different ways your mind works in images and pictures - how it's constantly tossing up images, sensations and emotions. You'll learn to build an awareness of the subtle offerings that come from deep within your own mind, from your own subconscious. You'll learn to respect those pictures and "visuals" as clues to something going on that's much greater, much more profound than just "coming up with ideas". |
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If you're after more than just "right-brain access" you'll learn a whole arsenal of techniques and tools to access your creative, image-spewing, at times even danger-predicting "quiet" mind. To order press Einstein Factor |
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By Doug Hall |
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"What a Great Idea!"
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