Talk:Betty Edwards

message: Anybody have less gushy, factual information?  "Drawing is so easy".  Blah blah blah.  I came for factual info and all I found was this lousy t-shirt slogan.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by  68.211.52.186  (talk)  2006-08-24T20:04:43 .   
:I taken three drawing courses.  The first two were traditional studio based courses, that did not teach me to draw.  Each instructor couldn't tell me what I was doing wrong.  The third course was  based on Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain (DRSB) and its exercises.  I can now draw.  The DRSB instructor told me, many times a day, exactly what I was doing wrong, and how to do it right -- based on the techniques from the book. - Lentower 21:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual information

message: This article as written currently has some serious problems. First, it's unreferenced, which is always a big problem (see WP:ATT for information on citing published sources).  Second, the language in the article sounds very biased and uses a number of "peacock terms" and "weasel words" to say how important or terrific the artist is without providing any actual evidence or references (see WP:WEASEL and WP:PEACOCK).  Finally there are some important basic biographical facts missing such as birthplace, birthdate and professional history.  (I can't even really tell from this article how old she is or if she's still alive.)
I'll try and remove some of the weasel words, but the citations I can't do.  And the only reason I didn't nominate this article for deletion is because I'm pretty sure someone can dig around and get the needed references and bio info.  Dugwiki 21:54, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. I removed or reworded the phrases that sounded both biased and uncited.  Also fixed a number of other minor things. Dugwiki 22:04, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand why Wikipedia likes citations, but (forgive me for stating the obvious) it can be a bit frustrating to the layman who knows that something is true, but cannot prove it. I read Betty's book and it converted me from someone who drew badly to someone who could draw well (and it introduced a new way of thinking to me). If there's any doubt it works, just try it out- you'll see for yourself that it does!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.29.30.136 (talk) 01:43, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs cleanup 

message: Betty Edwards' published works are well cited in the literature.  One could start from a Google Scholar search and find citations for this article. Lentower 21:45, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Scholar 

message: I don't understand this edit , "Cross referenced in Wikipedia: Terence Hines, 1987" but thought it might be best to place it here for discussion.  Maybe Edwards is mentioned in Hines' 1987 book? --Ronz (talk) 20:06, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved from article for discussion - Possible ref?

message: I've put some references to the book, but the one I have in front of me is The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain which is the 3rd edition. Anyone out there have a newer copy to update the page references? 
 LL1324 10:18, 18 April 2015 Ll1324 (talk) 16:21, 18 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  4th edition of <i>Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain</i>