Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain isn't frequently recommended because working through it will turn you into a great or even mediocre artist. It's frequent

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain isn't frequently recommended because working through it will turn you into a great or even mediocre artist. It's frequently recommended because most people out there without any artistic training can't make it past the first, most basic hurdle of thinking that you have to have some kind of amazing innate "talent" to be able to draw anything more sophisticated than a stick figure. I haven't seen another book that breaks that barrier down and shows that drawing is mostly just a skill that can be learned and improved with study and practice like many other skills as reliably as Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain does. I've seen that change happen for many people (many of whom have gone on to take and enjoy proper drawing classes) with that book but I've never seen any of them "mislead" or "deluded" by it.