FORM COMBINE

Make a drawing that combines two projected forms of one artist.

In our continuing search for fresh form and enclosure generation, let’s consider what I call Form Combine. This results in a transparent drawing in which three dimensional form projections are overlaid on each other. These are the simple steps for Form Combine drawing.

The first step is to select two, or more, works of an artist that you are interested in.  In this example, I have used the drawings of Henry Moore as a basis for my form projections.  If you need a refresher on the basic Transparent Drawing method of form projection, examples and instruction can be found at ELLSWORTH KELLY PLANT DRAWINGS,   DRAWING FROM DRAWING and DRAW THE WRONG WAY.

Next, you simply draw a complete, three dimensional form on your paper based on your form projection.  After you have resolved the form in three dimensions, you can proceed to apply color tones to the surfaces, just like you would any Transparent Drawing.

Last, apply the second form over the first form you have drawn.  In my example above, I used a water soluble graphite pencil to make the black lines.  And I dipped the pencil in water before drawing the lines.

And that’s it.  From multiple representational depictions, you have generated a transparent, three dimensional solution in which the results are unexpected.  Now you might say, ok, but of what use is this drawing?  It does not look like any sort of reasonable object.  It certainly does not look like a building.

To which I agree.  So immediately after I made my drawing above, I made the drawing below, using what I learned from my Form Combine.  And with some editing and simplification, I was able to generate a form solution that certainly be a building, or some sort of digital user device.  This drawing from drawing method was explored in FRESH FORM GENERATION.

And of course, there are a multitude of variations of Form Combine that can be employed.  I will go into some of these variants that I have come up with later.  Feel free to input any Form Combine variant that you might devise.