The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

If you want to learn to draw, this is where you want to start. If you teach drawing, all of your students can learn to draw. This has been the foundation for my beginning drawing classes for years. See my student before and after pictures.

A revised and expanded edition of the classic drawing-instruction book that has sold more than 2,500,000 copies.
Edwards, who has 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.

Workbook for Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards

If you get the book above, and I hope you do, get this accompanying workbook. Don't skip around, do each lesson in order.
Millions of people have learned to draw using the methods of Dr. Betty Edwards. Now, in an essential companion to her bestselling classic, Edwards offers readers the key to mastering this art form: guided practice in their newfound creative abilities.

Keys to Drawing by Bert Dodson

Keys to Drawing with Imagination: Strategies and Exercises for Gaining Confidence and Enhancing Your Creativity by Bert Dodson

Every artist wants to be more creative, and this book demystifies that often confusing process. There are dozens of exercises to help readers more fully engage their artwork and unlock the power of the imagination. Artists will learn how to recycle old drawings into fresh ideas and discover new ways of working that free their creativity. Artists of all levels--working in every medium--will come away more confident and creative!!

Drawing on the Artist Within: An Inspirational and Practical Guide to Increasing Your Creative Powers by Betty Edwards

Through 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.

Drawing Realistic Textures in Pencil by JD Hillberry

Hillberry, an artist and teacher, offers splendid demonstrations on creating the look of metal, wood, hair, and even cracked glass. To his credit, Hillberry admits one needs to have already grasped shape, proportion, and perspective before approaching this level of realism. Highly recommended for collections that need more than the basics.

Mandala: Luminous Symbols for Healing, 10th Anniversary Edition with a New CD of Meditations and Exercises by Judith Cornell

I have the older version of this book without the CD. I have modified the meditations and used them with high school drawing students which resulted in some magnificent drawings. The students actually requested more of the meditation exercises.

Drawing the Light from Within: Keys to Awaken Your Creative Power by Judith Cornell

Judith Cornell teaches readers how to visualize their own creative potential so they can develop inspired creativity, self-esteem, and optimism. Drawing The Light From Within is for teachers, philosophers, scientists, psychologists, designers, visual artists, and non-specialist general readers wanting to overcome personal barriers that stifle their creative power and thus enable themselves to give voice to their full range of creative expression.

Drawing for Older Children & Teens by Mona Brookes

Similar lessons to Betty Edwards. I have modified lessons in this book for high school beginnin drawing students.

Drawing with Children by Mona Brookes

I have used this book very effectively with small children. You will be amazed.