COINCIDENT PROJECTION

For a Form Combine, draw three forms with Coincident Projection. That was the task I set before me, as I drew, with a red water soluble pen, three Ottawa lock forms over each other. With Coincident Projection, you draw each form within the same Spacetime. For the drawing above, this amounted to using a two point perspective projection, and each form shared the two vanishing points.

This seems mildly significant, as Transparent Drawing tells you to forget drawing projection systems, to Draw Like a Byzantine, etc. The over arching message that hopefully the book brings out, is that everything is on the table: everything has a potential use. So if you get the notion to draw three forms aligned with a two point projection, then that is exactly what you should do.

It’s fun to try to draw in this Mode. You have to keep track of the form you are currently drawing, given that all the lines start to blend over each other. The lines also resonate with each other. Patterns are revealed. The form similarity sets up nodes. Before the tones are applied, the drawing is Lines Without Tones. This framework, this armature, then allows for a straightforward path to holistic form. My tonal bands are but one response, and I can imagine many different responses. For example, the tonal bands also adhere to the shared spacetime, but they just as easily could not.

Still, a holistic form was created. We operated in pure analogue. Our Provenance Quotient is 100%. We used our own Source Images. We have Sensory Memory of the locks. The drawing was done three years after the Source Images were taken. And we were inspired to draw in a way that we have never quite done before.