1. Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
INTRODUCTION

2. The power of perception
The true subject of this book is perception. The lessons help people attain the
basic ability to draw, also, bring right hemisphere functions into focus and to
teach readers how to see in new ways, with hopes that they would discover
how to transfer perceptual skills to thinking and problem solving, called transfer
of learning

3. Original publication in 1979, revised three times 1989, 1999, 2012
In 1989 revision, it’s focused on proposing individuals who had never been able to
draw could learn to draw very rapidly.
In 1999, the revision is focused on the skills of sighting (proportion and
perspective), which is the most difficult component skills to teach in words.
In 2012, the revision clarifies the global nature of drawing and links to drawing’s
basic component skills to thinking in general

4. Drawing does indeed involve thought, and it is an effective and efficient
method for perceptual
training
“If we also teach students right-hemisphere perceptual skills, they will help
students see things in context, see the whole picture, see things in
proportion and in perspective, and observe and apprehend.”

5. Seeing skills
How to perceive ?
Edges
Spaces
Relationship
Lights and Shadow
Gestalt

6. Two vital global skills, reading and drawing
Basic component of reading
•Phonetic awareness (knowing that alphabet letters represent sounds)
•Phonics (recognizing letter sounds in words)
•Vocabulary (knowing the meanings of words)
•Fluency (being able to read quickly and smoothly)
•Comprehension (grasping the meaning of what is read)
Basic component of drawing
•The perception of edges (seeing where one thing ends and another starts)
•The perception of spaces (seeing what lies beside and beyond)
•The perception of relationships (seeing in perspective and in proportion)
•The perception of lights and shadows (seeing things in degree of values)
•The perceptions of the gestalt (seeing the whole and its parts)

7. L-mode, R-mode
Verbal, analytical L-mode
skills as a major function
of the left brain
Visual, perceptual R-mode
skills as a major function of
the right brain

8. Language dominates

9. “In order to gain access to the right hemisphere, it is necessary to present
the left hemisphere with a task that it will turn down.”

10. Make the left hemisphere fade
out by trick, not wanting to do
the task

11. Ended by interfered and usurped

12. Elephant had been trained to paint a rough image of an elephant

13. People who lose language abilities due to left-brain dementia damage ( 智力受損 )
spontaneously develop unusual artistic, musical, and rhyming abilities, including
drawing ability- skills attributed to the right hemisphere.

14. Vase/ Faces (Chapter 4)
Acquaint us with the possibility of conflict between the hemispheres as they
COMPETE for the task Set up to strongly activate the verbal hemisphere (Lmode) but completion of the exercise requires the ability of the visual
hemisphere (R-mode).

15. Upside-Down Drawing (Chapter 4)
This exercise is REJECTED by the left hemisphere because it’s too difficult to
name parts of an image when it’s upside down. The rejection enables the
right hemisphere to jump into the task without competition from the left
hemisphere.

16. Perception of Edges (Chapter 6)
Forces extreme slowness and extreme perception of tiny, inconsequential details,
where every detail becomes a fractal-like whole, with details within details. It makes
left hemisphere becomes “fed up” because its
too slow for words” and drops out, enabling the right hemisphere to take up the task.

17. Perception of Spaces (Chapter 7)
Rejected by the left hemisphere because it will not deal with “nothing”. Negative
spaces that are not objects and can’t be named. The right hemisphere with its
recognition of the whole (shapes and spaces) then free to pick up the task and seems
to take antic delight in drawing negative spaces

18. Perception of Relationships (Chapter 8)
Force left hemisphere to confront paradox and ambiguity with the angular and
proportional spatial changes in perspective drawing. Because the right hemisphere is
willing to acknowledge perceptual reality, it accepts and will draw what it sees.

19. Perception of Lights and Shadows (Chapter 10)
Lights and shadows in the 3D are infinitely complex, variable, unnamable, and not
useful in terms of language. The left hemisphere refuses the task, which the
complexity-loving right hemisphere then picks up.

20. Perception of the Gestalt (Chapter 11)
Through in recognition of the whole that emerges from careful perception and
recording of the parts (left hemisphere) , all in relationship to each other and to the
whole effected by right hemisphere.

21. Left brain = the great saboteur of endeavors in art

22. Saboteur
破壞者
fragile

23. Not to draw! Go to the market,
balance your
checkbook, phone your mother, plan your
vacation, do your work…
Mr. Left brain

24. Any strategy?

25. Present your brain with a job that your left hemisphere
will turn down

26. Copy an upside-down
photograph

27. Regard a negative
space and draw it

28. Simply drawing

29. Jogging, Meditation, Games,
Music, Cooking, Gardening…
Produce a cognitive shift by giving the great power
to trick out its dominance

30. The methods have proven empirically successful by
teaching experiences from students and readers

31. Begins with the explanation of the component skill to be explored
Demonstration drawing by instructor
Students apply the instructions of their own drawing
(XXX-XXXI)

32. “Life seems much richer now that I am seeing more.”