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Betty Edwards found a way to let almost anyone learn to draw -- specifically, anyone with average eyesight and average eye-hand coordination, anyone who can thread a needle or catch a baseball. Drawing realistically requires shifting to a different way...(more) of seeing, seeing the way experienced artists see when they are working. "The key to learning to draw, therefore, is to set up conditions that cause you to make a mental shift to a different mode of information processing -- the slightly altered state of consciousness -- that enables you to see well. In this drawing mode you will be able to draw your perceptions even though you may never have studied drawing. Once the drawing mode is familiar to you, you will be able to consciously control the mental shift." This book can teach you to draw even though you feel you have little talent and doubt that you could ever learn. If you enjoy drawing but have no been able to get much beyond a childlike level, it will show you how to gain the skill you have always wanted. If you are already drawing as a professional artist or as an artist-in-training, it will give you greater confidence in your ability and will deepen your artistic perceptions.(less)