INFORMED OR INVENTIVE

Your Transparent Drawing is either informed or inventive.

INFORMED

Informed drawing documents what you know.  For example, a few pages ago, we addressed the SURVEY DRAWING.  A survey drawing is informed drawing:  you use your sensory input, set at the widest bandwidth, to take in all available information.  You then draw based on this sensory input.  TRAVEL DRAWING, as defined in these pages, is informed drawing.  Drawing from photographs is informed drawing.  Drawing a coffee cup, as you rotate it around to see it from all sides, is informed drawing.

The drawing at the top of page TRAVEL BUILDING 1 is an informed drawing.  Another informed drawing can be found at the top of the page titled VILLA SAVOYE.  I drew that from photographs and orthograpic drawings.

In all of these examples, the lines that are put on the paper are done with knowledge.  The lines and tones on the paper demonstrate how the object resolves.  Every line that is put on the paper is based on reality.  This is the object.  This is how it works.  Very smart.

INVENTIVE

An inventive drawing is one that you are using to problem solve.  As you work thru various design solutions using Transparent Drawing, you are inventing.  You are thinking.  You are drawing a form / enclosure / space / object which will be or could be.   There are no survey activities to engage in.

An example of an inventive drawing can be found at the top of page HOUSE NOT HOUSE.  The drawing at the top of this page is an inventive drawing, as I was using OTEIZAform combinations.  Any time that we employ PAINTING DIMENSIONALIZATION, we are making an inventive drawing.  When we use the 36 POETIC IMMORTALS, we are inventing.  Very smart.

My use of the words informed and inventive are taken from Belardi’s, Why Architects Still Draw, p. 81.  He uses these two terms to address a painting by Canaletto which depicts an architectural fantasy representation that combines diverse monuments into one scene.  I like his use of these two words to categorize drawing, as this is exactly what we have been talking about.  They struck me as instantly applicable to Transparent Drawing.

IGNORANT

Representational drawing, by contrast, is neither informed or inventive.  If I had to apply another word starting with the letter “i” to representational drawing, it would be ignorant.  In ignorant drawing, you don’t draw what you can’t see.  Ignorant drawing is like sweeping the dirt under the rug.  Out of sight, out of mind.  Very stupid.