Synopses & Reviews
Overcome the obstacles to your artistic expression
Improving your artwork can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. "Your Artist's Brain" shows you how to portray even the most complex subjects by focusing on what you really see - not what you think you see.
Expert art instructor Carl Purcell shows you how to overcome dependency on the "intellectual brain" and listen carefully to the more observant "artist's brain."
With "Your Artist's Brain," you'll learn visual skills and artistic techniques that will instantly make you a better artist, no matter what your medium.
22 step-by-step demonstrations on key relationships between shapes, spaces, subjects, backgrounds, angles, sizes, values and more
Easy examples and fun exercises teaching you how to "see" and design great compositions
"Points to Remember" sidebars that allow you to quickly grasp each concept
Maximize the power of your artist's brain today and embark on the path to creating better art.
Synopsis
Portray subjects by focusing on what you really see?not what you think you see. Artists of all skills will love this big book loaded with instruction (primarily graphite, colored pencil and watercolor) on overcoming the ?intellectual brain? and focusing on the observant ?artist?s brain.? Compiled from Drawing with Your Artist?s Brain and Painting with Your Artist?s Brain, this shows you why you may have problems making realistic yet expressive art, where those problems come from and how to overcome them by using skills you already posses.