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"Right brain v left brain
The myth: 91% of teachers believe that difference between the left hemisphere and right hemisphere explains individual differences among learners. This typically translates into people thinking you are left-brained if you are rational and objective or right-brained if you are intuitive and creative.
The origins: In the 1960s, research on patients with epilepsy found that when the connection between the right and left hemispheres were broken, the two sides acted individually and processed things differently. This led to the belief that the two hemispheres of our brain worked independently. This spoke to the desire for us to categorise people and behaviours. It made the complex simple; the confusing clear.
Where next for the right-brain/left-brain myth?
Researchers have found that neither hemisphere is solely responsible for one type of personality. It is a particularly damaging myth as it can lead to students not trying in certain subjects as they believe they don’t have the brain for it."

Why is this book being recommended then?

Is it worth reading everything that is there or should I go straight forward to exercises (if there are any). I am not a complete beginner but I would like to work on my measurement and overall proportion skills so I want to read that book.

Also I heard that there is a smaller version of it without all the science talk, can anyone link it?

Is this book legit or just a bunch of balooney? It's recomended but I don't really belive it can work

Has anybody gone through pic related?
is it legit or just for bottom feeders?

Is it a meme book ?

Is Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain worth reading? I looked at it and I felt like tldr

So people here keep saying that you should learn how to draw from life before trying to practice drawing from imagination.

1) What are the skills you gain by doing that that are applicable to drawing from imagination?
2) How do you do it? Do you just draw what you see like a camera or try to construct the scene as if you were 3D modeling it?
3) How good do you have to be at it before you can start learning how to draw from scratch?

>Use your viewfinder

This book is a meme.
I did the upside down drawing and the vase thingy. Can I skip this book and do Keys to drawing?

Has anyone used the books from the sticky?

I'm getting back into drawing and need to start at the beginning.

The sticky has some drawing books listed, like the "Drawing on the right side of the brain", but not sure if I should bother reading some of it, all of it, none of it and just practice drawing.

Some of the advice sounds interesting but alot of it has some pseudoscience lecture garbage, which is a problem with all drawing books.

Good exercises for developing perception skills? Some of the exercises in this book seem pretty silly but they are suppose to work.

Are skilled artists able to eyeball exact measurements like a skilled carpenter or woodworker can?

>get drawing on the right side of the brain
>every exercise is literally "you have to watch the lines and try to get the shading right then draw the rest of the fucking owl"

What the actual fuck. Are there other good books for begginers like me?