Betty Edwards' Drawing on the Artist Within offers a program for unlocking creativity through drawing, ideal for all skill levels. Learn problem-solving and decision-making techniques. Whether you are a business manager, teacher, writer, technician, or student, you'll find Drawing on the Artist Within the most effective program ever created for tapping your creative powers. Profusely illustrated with hundreds of instructional drawings and the work of master artists, this book is written for people with no previous experience in art.AH-HA! I SEE IT NOW! Everyone has experienced that joyful moment when the light flashes on -- the Ah-Ha! of creativity.Creativity. It is the force that drives problem-solving, informs effective decision-making and opens new frontiers for ambition and intelligence. Those who succeed have learned to harness their creative power by keeping that light bulb turned on.Now, Betty Edwards, author of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, the million-copy best-seller that proved all people can draw well just as they can read well, has decoded the secrets of the creative process to help you tap your full creative potential and apply that power to everyday problems. How does Betty Edwards do this? Through the power of drawing -- power you can harness to see problems in new ways.You will learn how the creative process progresses from stage to stage and how to move your own problem-solving through these key steps: * First insight* Saturation* Incubation* Illumination (the Ah-Ha!)* VerificationThrough simple step-by-step exercises that require no special artistic abilities, Betty Edwards will teach you how to take a new point of view, how to look at things from a different perspective, how to see the forest and the trees, in short, how to bring your visual, perceptual brainpower to bear on creative problem-solving. CONTENTSPrefacePart I A New Look at the Art of Seeing1 Creativity: The Chameleon Concept2 Drawing on Gleams from Within3 Taking a Long Look at Creativity4 Drawing on DefinitionsPart II Making Thought Visible5 Drawing on a Parallel Language6 Making Telling Marks7 Drawing Out Insight8 Drawing on Intuition9 Drawing on First Insight to Find the Question10 Drawing Meaning from the Inside OutPart III New Strategies for Thinking11 Drawing Up the Rules of the Game12 Drawing on New Points of View13 Beaux Gestes: Drawing on Beautiful Gestures14 Drawing at a Snail's Pace15 Drawing on the Other Side of Our Assumptions16 There Is More to Seeing than Meets the Eyeball17 Taking a Sight on Reason, Ratios, and Relationships18 Shadows that Light the Way19 Drawing Close to the Magic Moment20 Drawing Power from WithinBibliographyIndex