JAMAICA DINING ROOM
I did this sketch about 2.5 years ago. It is of a dining room in Jamaica. It is one of the few transparent sketches that I did in situ. I started the sketch during...
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VIRTUAL PENCIL AND BRUSH
More thoughts on evolving digital drawing interfaces. SensAble Technologies, a digital interface company operating in the 1990s, manufactured a handheld controller which gave users the virtual sensation of actually touching onscreen objects. In their...
CALLIGRAPHY AS A GRAPHIC
I have been using the beautiful graphics of Islamic writing as a way of generating forms. I have been using Islamic calligraphy as a graphic to generate ideas. I continue to think of the...
CULTURAL COPYING
The cultural provenance of your ideas and solutions is what will establish what is valued, and what is not. How you manage, parse and organize the Googlized information flood is a significant part of...
SOCIETAL KNOWLEDGE
In these pages, we have bemoaned the subjugation of the visual and the elevation of language. Let’s look a bit closer at how language actually works so we can see what we are up...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING METHOD
What if we were taught form generation simply for the enjoyment of form generation? What if we were given the tools, an approach, a philosophy for pure enclosure and form generation? This would be...
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN – TAKE 2
Robert, one of our far flung correspondents, takes exception to my thoughts about clients hating your design. (This link takes you to Robert’s comments, which are at the bottom of the page.) Robert has...
VISUAL SERENDIPITY
A word that I keep coming back to is associative. If our drawings promote and foster associations in our minds, then they have added value. And we have mentioned Google Images as a medium...
CARPENTER CENTER UNDERSTANDING
We made a pilgrimage to Le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center in Cambridge, MA recently. This might have been the third time that I was there. School had not started yet so we were able to...
BRAINLESS MASS ANTS
The Mould Manifesto by the painter Hunderwasser is hugely entertaining and inspirational. In his manifesto, he decries the use of straight lines in architecture. And what painter uses straight lines? Think of almost any...
FULL CIRCLE TRANSPARENCY
Thomas French, one of our far flung correspondents, sent an interesting and related note. This regards the PBS series Time Scanners. So that engineers may understand in greater depth the structural integrity of the...
TONE AND LINE
Transparent Drawing requires that you draw lines and then put tones between the lines. At least that is what I do. We should give some of our attention to the matter of tones and...
JOGGING FOR BUILDINGS
Lockard in his book Design Drawing states, “Designers must be professional perceivers. They must learn to perceive their environment comprehensively…” “Drawing is a primary means of developing this needed perceptual ability.” (1) When you...
ON REALISM – A LETTER TO HELEN
Why not draw realistically? After all, a basic tenant of realism is that it represents truth. A completely natural drawing is done without any outside artifice. Forms, textures, shadows, etc. are all rendered...
QUICK START
If you have persevered thru any of this, you might be wondering how you would start to do a transparent drawing. You might have an urge to find a piece of paper, a pencil,...
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