Recording: Drawing
Drawing is a foundational skill in art and design that is important for recording, communicating and expressing ideas. Your qualification requires you to show evidence of drawing under AO3 Record so it is important that you demonstrate this in every project you do.
There are many different ways that we use drawing from communicating information such as through a map to sketching out inventions and documenting the world around us. Eileen Adams, a researcher for the Campaign for Drawing, has identified four key categories that drawing falls within*: PERECEPTION Drawing as perception is that which assists the ordering of sensations, feelings, ideas and thoughts. The drawing is done primarily for the need, pleasure, interest or benefit of the person doing the drawing. It might enable them to explore and to develop observation and interpretative skills to investigate and understand the world. Other people might not understand these drawings, but that does not matter, they are primarily for the benefit of the drawer to understand something. COMMUNICATION Drawing as communication is that which assists the process of making ideas, thoughts and feelings available to others. Here, the intention is to communicate sensations, feelings or ideas to someone else. It is likely that certain codes or conventions will be used so that the viewer will be helped to understand what is being communicated. For example INVENTION Drawing as invention is that which assists the creative manipulation and development of thought. This is where you cannot think the thought until it is made visible and accessible, capable of change and manipulation. Ideas are at an embryonic stage, unformed or only partly formed at the beginning of the process of drawing. Ideas take shape when the drawer experiences ʻreflexive oscillationʼ between impulse, ideas and mark, receiving feedback from the marks appearing on the page, which prompt further thought and mark-making. Usually the drawing is one of a series, where ideas are explored, repeated, refined, practised, worked over, discarded, combined, where alternatives are sought and alternative possibilities explored. Key activities here are translation, formation, transformation, adaptation and invention. ACTION Drawing as action is that which helps to put ideas into action. These drawings form a bridge between the realm of the imagination and implementation. The intention is not just to focus on the content of ideas and proposals, but also to put them to the test and see how to put them into effect – plans, patterns and templates, for example. * E.Adams (2013) 'Drawing to Learn; Learning to Draw', NSEAD |
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