AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW!

Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on — the Ah-Ha! of creativity.

Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.

Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing — power you can harness to see problems in new ways.

Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.

You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:

x First insight
x Saturation
x Incubation
x Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)
x Verification

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.

Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on — the Ah-Ha! of creativity.

Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.

Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing — power you can harness to see problems in new ways.

Through simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving.

You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps:

* First insight

* Saturation

* Incubation

* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)

* Verification

Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.

Preface

Part I A New Look at the Art of Seeing

1 Creativity: The Chameleon Concept

2 Drawing on Gleams from Within

3 Taking a Long Look at Creativity

4 Drawing on Definitions

Part II Making Thought Visible

5 Drawing on a Parallel Language

6 Making Telling Marks

7 Drawing Out Insight

8 Drawing on Intuition

9 Drawing on First Insight to Find the Question

10 Drawing Meaning from the Inside Out

Part III New Strategies for Thinking

11 Drawing Up the Rules of the Game

12 Drawing on New Points of View

13 Beaux Gestes: Drawing on Beautiful Gestures

14 Drawing at a Snail's Pace

15 Drawing on the Other Side of Our Assumptions

16 There Is More to Seeing than Meets the Eyeball

17 Taking a Sight on Reason, Ratios, and Relationships

18 Shadows that Light the Way

19 Drawing Close to the Magic Moment

20 Drawing Power from Within

Bibliography

Index