The importance of drawing
Exploration. Drawing as an exploratory act is important in and of itself, but also as a way of figuring out what may or may not be important in a follow-up/larger piece of work. For example a painting or for print making. It is an important start point for what might come.
Celebration. Mark making, in sketchbooks or on large sheets of paper is a celebratory process, either reacting to what is in front of one or what is in one’s head at the time. It is an immediate response. A compulsion: for example seeing some people in a tube carriage and just having to hunker down to make a drawing.
Recording. Since 2004 I have been lucky enough to travel extensively overseas and sketchbooks have always been a part of the adventure. Carving out 10 minutes before meeting to make a drawing. A practice that over time was seen as quite normal for me by my colleagues. As a result there are over 70 books on the bookshelf. And they serve an important task. The other week example I was reading about all the changes in Cairo, the disappearing houseboats on the Nile and was able to refer to my drawings to remember the Cairo in which I worked.
Please feel free to download any of the seven sketch books featured below
Exploration. Drawing as an exploratory act is important in and of itself, but also as a way of figuring out what may or may not be important in a follow-up/larger piece of work. For example a painting or for print making. It is an important start point for what might come.
Celebration. Mark making, in sketchbooks or on large sheets of paper is a celebratory process, either reacting to what is in front of one or what is in one’s head at the time. It is an immediate response. A compulsion: for example seeing some people in a tube carriage and just having to hunker down to make a drawing.
Recording. Since 2004 I have been lucky enough to travel extensively overseas and sketchbooks have always been a part of the adventure. Carving out 10 minutes before meeting to make a drawing. A practice that over time was seen as quite normal for me by my colleagues. As a result there are over 70 books on the bookshelf. And they serve an important task. The other week example I was reading about all the changes in Cairo, the disappearing houseboats on the Nile and was able to refer to my drawings to remember the Cairo in which I worked.
Please feel free to download any of the seven sketch books featured below
snap_draw_paint_the_handout.pdf | |
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tokyo_sketch_book_.pdf | |
File Size: | 4317 kb |
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ypres_and_somme_mini_book__.pdf | |
File Size: | 2798 kb |
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curious_coast_mini_book_2016.pdf | |
File Size: | 810 kb |
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scottish_sketchbook.pdf | |
File Size: | 2185 kb |
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flower_power.pdf | |
File Size: | 2430 kb |
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fish___tackle_mini_book_pdf_2.pdf | |
File Size: | 1694 kb |
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