There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally, it is not a drawing. If you import JPEG images and distort and trim them so that they fit into what […]
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29Mar
2017
ANALOGUE DRAWING
2017
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct, analogous link between the mind and the body. “Historically, drawing has been understood as a mark or line on paper, the […]
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27Mar
2017
FORM COMBINE
2017
Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist. In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing in which three dimensional form projections are overlaid on each other. These are the simple steps for Form Combine drawing. The […]
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23Mar
2017
POST-DIGITAL DRAWING
2017
In Metropolis Magazine, Sam Jacob wrote a piece titled Architecture Enters the Age of Post-Digital Drawing. The concept of the article is that, in the beginning, architects drew. Then the juggernaut of the machine made them stop. And now they are drawing again. Let’s look at the author’s Post-Digital drawing concept from a Transparent Drawing […]
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22Mar
2017
THINKING ABOUT LANGUAGE
2017
“The more I think about language, the more it amazes me that people ever understand each other at all.” Kurt Gödel. Wang, Hao. From Mathematics to Philosophy, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974. p. 95
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20Mar
2017
INFORMED OR INVENTIVE
2017
Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive. INFORMED Informed drawing documents what you know. For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING. A survey drawing is informed drawing: you use your sensory input, set at the widest bandwidth, to take in all available information. You then draw based on this sensory […]
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17Mar
2017
TIME
2017
Transparent Drawing cannot exist without time. CUBIST TIME Cubism offered the first new way to show time and space on a two dimensional surface since Alberti. Cubism, in it’s anti representational formula, shows opaque forms and shapes from multiple viewpoints. Cubism assumes that either the object has rotated / moved or the viewer has moved […]
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15Mar
2017
DRAW WHAT YOU KNOW
2017
Peter Eisenman: “…to allow the subject to have a vision of space that can no longer be put together in the normalizing, classicizing or traditional construct of vision.” “A possible first step in conceptualizing this “other” space, would be to detach what one sees from what one knows.” (italics added) He is talking about his […]
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13Mar
2017
HOUSE NOT HOUSE
2017
Would our art be advanced if we eliminated nouns from our design vocabulary? Bachelard advises us that if we want to find the essence of something, we should look to the adjectives. He writes that …”the world is not so much a noun as an adjective.” P. 144 What if we took this thought to […]
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10Mar
2017
SURVEY DRAWING
2017
The act of seeing is one of creation. When we see a building, we need to open ourselves to as wide a bandwith as possible. Belardi, in his “No Day Without a Line” lecture tells us that it is important to be open to cultural and time information. TIME Certainly time is something that we […]
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