DRAW THE WRONG WAY
When you have to come up with a creative solution, you need to feel free to draw like you have never drawn before. And this typically means that you end up drawing the wrong...
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TRANSPARENT CONTOUR DRAWING
Certainly one of the most powerful tools with which to see is the contour drawing. I guess that is why authors such as Nicolaides in his The Natural Way To Draw essentially starts his...
WHAT A THOUGHT LOOKS LIKE
Bucky Fuller believed that the tetrahedron was the most efficient enclosure that humans can create in the Newtonian world. A tetrahedron has four points which then create enclosures with four sides. These four points...
ASSOCIATIVE CONFIDENCE
We typically categorize smart people based on their ability to recall facts. Our entire educational system is based upon this premise. My personal belief is that each of us has a more or less...
THE 3D SOLID PROBLEM
All we can draw are planes. We cannot render the volume inside a solid. In the drawing above, there is a solid and a void within the cube. The dark green solid part is...
TRANSPARENT THUMBNAILS
I like social media better than I used to. Because of the interesting discussion that has sprung up on a small corner of LinkedIn, as I mentioned earlier, I am starting to see a...
DATA PROCESSING
Don’t draw like a camera. A camera merely records perceptual data. A camera records the surface data. Then at some distant point in time, the processing of that data occurs. Or is supposed to...
ANCIENT OPERATING SYSTEM
Let’s face it. The operating system for Transparent Drawing is ancient. After all, we are talking about nothing more than a pencil and a piece of paper with some watercolor tones. So how long...
TERMS OF SERVICE
I read that everyone likes lists online as they are easier to read and then are more likely to be forwarded (hint). So I offer to you this short list of terms and definitions...
STRUCTURAL ESSENCE
Productive thinking. This is what we all want to do. We want to be as productive as we can when we problem solve. For the greatest productivity, we need to be thinking about the...
INNOCENCE LOST
The more that I work on this project, the more I think back to my educational experience in Architecture School. And I continue to ponder on how we generate the forms that we create. ...
PLAY THE FANTASY GAME
The building is built. The design was done the best that you could have done. Yet I find it interesting to pursue the what if scenarios. What if, for example, there would not have...
VISUAL FACTS
A critical component of the creative conceptual process is when and how we retrieve our associations. As has been discussed earlier, our drawing makes direct deposits in our association database. When we draw, 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...
THANK GOD ALMIGHTY, WE’RE FREE AT LAST
To date, we have discussed various drawing projection systems for your Transparent Drawings. We have discussed the axonometric with it’s supreme objectivity. We have discussed the one and two point perspectives with their supreme...
FORM GENERATION
As designers, one of the basic points is to derive a form that is unique to your problem and somewhat different that what has come before. The derivation of a new form is in...
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...
YOU CANNOT NOT DRAW HISTORY
I guess one fundamental motivation for this project is to give architecture students a format with which to overcome what I continue to see as the passive teaching of architectural history. I characterize this...
IS ARCHITECTURE ART?
In these pages, we have stated that we are not creating art in our drawings. And because we are not creating art, then we must not be artists. So if the drawings that we...
INLET GUIDE VANE ASSEMBLY – INSPIRATION
Be inspired by anything. I have a penchant for mechanical technology. I love airplanes, engines, etc. Whatever you might have a strong affinity for, go with it. You might really like Ming Dynasty vases....
CHOISEY ONE POINT
Auguste Choisey, as we have seen, was a profound thinker. And he assiduously believed that his type of axonometric was the only way to draw. To recap, a Choisey Axonometric is the one where...
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