Your Artist's Brain can help you learn visual skills and techniques that will make you a better artist, no matter what your medium. It is an invaluable tool for helping you overcome the "intellectual brain" and focus on the observant "artist's brain."

Compiled from Drawing with Your Artist's Brain and Painting with Your Artist's Brain, this guide 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 possess. Improving your drawings and paintings can be as simple as learning how to trust your eyes. Learn 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 has compiled the best tips and techniques from his previously published books to show you how to overcome artistic obstacles. Easy examples, fun exercises, and lots of demonstrations focus on shapes, values, designing great compositions, and more.

Author — Carl Purcell.

Paperback. 208 pages. 8½" × 11" (22 cm × 28 cm).