WHY DO WE DRAW?
Why do we draw? Why we draw is a fundamental theme of these pages. By contrast, these pages are really not about how we draw. That sort of thing has been covered by the...
Category: INTRODUCTION
ABSTRACTION AND REPRESENTATION
Transparent Drawing is not abstract. Yet most people, when presented with Transparent Drawing, describe it as abstract. For most of us, the drawing either looks real or it does not. And if it does...
BETWEEN CONCEPTION AND REPRESENTATION
I have shown my clients Transparent Drawings, and this has only increased their enthusiasm and excitement toward the design. There is a competitive advantage to the presentation of rational and explanatory hand drawings. And...
THINKING THRU THE BLOCKS
I was amazed to learn that there are transparent building block sets. There seem to be two basic types. The first type is made of solid acrylic. These blocks have more of a translucency...
DRAWING FROM PHOTOS
Most architectural educators continue to tell students that you should not draw from photographs. The general line of thinking is that since a photo is a 2D image, it is too far removed from...
WHY. NOT HOW
Paul Lauseau, author of Graphic Thinking for Architects and Designers, muses the following in the second edition of his excellent resource, “…it occurs to me that most of what I have written deals with...
DRAWING WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Seriously. After you draw transparently for as long as I have, when you see a nice representational drawing, I am starting to cringe. I ask myself; what’s behind that? How is that working? What...
LINE AND WORD
The education for most of us has had a far more literary than artistic focus. When you write a story in grade school, it of course is rough. And you are given encouragement...
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