REPRESENTATION IS DEAD. OPACITY IS DEAD. TRANSPARENCY IS THE REPLACEMENT.
Transparent Drawing is about knowledge of form. By rejecting opacity, you are able to knowledge, in one analogue drawing, a holistic object. TD is used to knowledge existing forms and to knowledge previously unimaginable forms. It advances various Drawing Modes and Drawing Assemblies to help you achieve this holistic knowledge.
With Transparent Drawing, you are on the path to knowledge.
DRAWING WITH AN ARTISTIC MINDSET IS DEAD. DRAWING WITH TRANSPARENCY IS THE REPLACEMENT.
Don’t draw like an artist. You are the creator of forms. The lines you draw directly shape what is put into existence in the physical world.
TRANSPARENT DRAWING IS ABOUT KNOWLEDGE.
When you draw transparently, you are given a superior understanding of your object. When you draw transparently, you simultaneously understand the exterior form and the interior space.
HOW CAN YOU KNOWLEDGE A FORM IF YOU DON’T DRAW WHAT YOU CAN’T SEE?
With an artistic mindset, we don’t draw what we can’t see. And because we don’t draw it, we can’t understand it. Drawing transparently lets us see and understand the complete object or enclosure, all at once. Transparent Drawing promotes a holistic understanding of a volume.
Analogue. Pencil and Paper. One drawing. Nothing hidden. Everything revealed.
SEE THE TRANSPARENT DRAWING MANIFESTO HERE!
TRANSPARENT DRAWING AS A THEORETICAL POSITION
TD holds that our classical understanding of the linear perspective and the two dimensional drawing has a limited bandwith.
The theory proposes that we use drawings that are transparent to re animate our human understanding of how the world works. The simple act of producing drawings in which all sides of an object are resolved is at the heart of the theory.
The theory operates at the intersection of the visual and literary components of our culture. TD posits that the visual needs to be given superior or equal parity with the literal in our culture.
Attention is given to previously unstudied facets of the act of design. Some of these include:
-psychology of the client /designer interface
-visual facts
-transparent travel drawing methods
-new drawing projections; The Choisey One Point
-methods for fresh form generation
TRANSPARENT DRAWING REJECTS ALL DIGITAL IMAGES; THEY ARE NOT DRAWINGS.
Transparent Drawing seeks a re engagement and integration of our bodily observations. Employment of this theory will only lead to designers becoming better at what they do.
IN A NUTSHELL
To draw transparently, you simply show all sides of an object on your piece of paper. So instead of drawing
this you draw this
Note how you can see all sides of the simple gable form. As a designer, the image on the right should be our default. Yet the image on the left is what we are taught to draw and is our cultural default.
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