LIFE LINES
The lines you have made on your paper will tell you what to do. The key is for each element that you apply to your drawing to have life. Each action is one of...
Tagged: HOUSE DRESS
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING ON ARCH DAILY
Arch Daily just ran a very nice piece titled Transparent Drawings, Visualizing Architecture Anew. Per many sources, Arch Daily is the most visited architecture website on the planet. I didn’t realize this...
AESTHETICS
In our quest for knowledge of form, where does aesthetics fit in? Are aesthetics and holistic form cognition supportive, or mutually exclusive? Goodman, in their book Language of Art, gives their take on the...
DOT TO DOT
Dot to Dot is a new Transparent Drawing Mode. And the steps are very simple:1. Knowledge any form on your paper.2. Where lines meet, deposit a heavy dot.3. Generate a new form by connecting...
WET PROOFS
BOOK LAUNCH UPDATE. Rachel at Black Dog Press just sent this photo of the wet proofs of the book. After a bit of research, I learned that wet proofs are done by the printer...
THEMATIC DRAWING – HOUSE DRESS
As I have developed and evolved Transparent Drawing, I have generated thousands of drawings. Most of the drawings that I do end up being thematic. One of the themes that I always enjoy is...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – 2
Back in 2016, we introduced the concept of Drawing from Drawing. I find it difficult to believe that it has been two years without another DFD page. So here is another. This drawing sequence...
VORONOI DIAGRAMS
I have found a new inspiration source, voronoi diagrams. A voronoi diagram is a scientific / mathematical graphic which divides a plane into regions based on sets of points on that plane. The first...
FOLDING WINGS
On this Monday morning, I wanted to share what I hope is an inspirational design resource. At this link, you will find a paper written by Japanese scientists in which they create holistic and...
LIFE IS NOT LIKE AN OIL PAINTING
“Life delineates itself on the canvas called time; and time never repeats: once gone, forever gone, and so is an act: once done, it is never undone. Life is a sumiye-painting, which must be...
HEROIC LINES
An image found on the web. A few heroic lines on the paper. A quick wash or two. A resolved, unique and authentic form. That really is at the heart of Transparent Drawing. A...
HOUSE DRESS
All of this drawing of Kawakubo’s garments got me thinking about form and space. Form as in something interesting and unique to look at. Space as a volume for a human. One of the...
THE MINDSET OF CONSERVATIVE CLIENTS
Humans have an innate tendency to avoid losses rather than to achieve gains. We are hardwired for this. All of our design discussion with our clients is, fundamentally, one of losses and gains. Let’s...
SUBURBAN GROUND EFFECTS
We are traveling this week. So I offer these brief posts on various topics that I have prepared ahead of time. Although this may not exactly be the most burning design question, what would...
WHEN A CLIENT HATES YOUR DESIGN – TAKE 2
Robert, one of our far flung correspondents, takes exception to my thoughts about clients hating your design. (This link takes you to Robert’s comments, which are at the bottom of the page.) Robert has...
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