Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration
This hands-on practical guide provides dyslexic young people with techniques to improve their observational drawing skills, showing them how they can work around the issues commonly reported by students with SLDs.

Many creative and talented individuals with neurological differences report difficulties with short-term memory, co-ordination and planning ahead within a project, and a lack of specialised teaching may even dissuade them from pursuing art at school. This book addresses those challenges.

The authors, who have many years' experience of teaching art to dyslexic and dyspraxic students, also include examples not just of the techniques described, but also of the creative ideas other neurodiverse students have come up with. Fully illustrated, with clear explanations, and space to draw and sketch, this much needed book will provide dyslexic art students with the tools and confidence to achieve their goals and become the creative professionals of the future.

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Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration
This hands-on practical guide provides dyslexic young people with techniques to improve their observational drawing skills, showing them how they can work around the issues commonly reported by students with SLDs.

Many creative and talented individuals with neurological differences report difficulties with short-term memory, co-ordination and planning ahead within a project, and a lack of specialised teaching may even dissuade them from pursuing art at school. This book addresses those challenges.

The authors, who have many years' experience of teaching art to dyslexic and dyspraxic students, also include examples not just of the techniques described, but also of the creative ideas other neurodiverse students have come up with. Fully illustrated, with clear explanations, and space to draw and sketch, this much needed book will provide dyslexic art students with the tools and confidence to achieve their goals and become the creative professionals of the future.

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Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration

Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration

Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration

Observational Drawing for Students with Dyslexia: Strategies, Tips and Inspiration

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Overview

This hands-on practical guide provides dyslexic young people with techniques to improve their observational drawing skills, showing them how they can work around the issues commonly reported by students with SLDs.

Many creative and talented individuals with neurological differences report difficulties with short-term memory, co-ordination and planning ahead within a project, and a lack of specialised teaching may even dissuade them from pursuing art at school. This book addresses those challenges.

The authors, who have many years' experience of teaching art to dyslexic and dyspraxic students, also include examples not just of the techniques described, but also of the creative ideas other neurodiverse students have come up with. Fully illustrated, with clear explanations, and space to draw and sketch, this much needed book will provide dyslexic art students with the tools and confidence to achieve their goals and become the creative professionals of the future.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787751422
Publisher: Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Publication date: 02/18/2021
Pages: 96
Product dimensions: 6.81(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)
Age Range: 14 - 18 Years

About the Author

Qona Rankin is Dyslexia Coordinator at the Royal College of Art. She has been working with dyslexic and dyspraxic postgraduate art and design students for the past twenty years. She has progressed from delivering academic support to delivering specifically designed drawing workshops in collaboration with Howard Riley since 2008.

Howard Riley holds a doctorate in the practice and teaching of drawing from the University of Wales and has lectured on the topic for over twenty years. His drawings have been exhibited in the UK, Finland, Malaysia, Serbia, Colorado USA and Australia.

Table of Contents

Preface 1

Chapter 1 Introduction 11

Dyslexia and the creative sector 14

Dyslexia and drawing from observation 17

Chapter 1 in a nutshell 20

Chapter 2 Seeing into Drawing: Dyslexia-Friendly Observational Drawing Exercises 21

Introduction 23

Observational drawing 25

Students' experiences 26

Learning how to look: You are a TV with three channels 28

Drawing as a five-step process 37

Drawing time! 38

Step back and reflect 55

Chapter 2 in a nutshell 58

Chapter 3 Positive Dyslexia: Drawing and Beyond 59

Examples of dyslexic artists' creativity 61

Chapter 3 in a nutshell 83

Endnotes 85

Further Reading 89

Index 91

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