In this article we offer tips for optimising your profile to enable other users to find you easily and outline some of the new image based features we have opened up to general users of the DRN site as well as providing links to the website guidelines document to refresh your memory on creating articles. Use these recommendations to build upon your efforts and input so far to create a better DRN!
The DRN 2010 Conference is open for advance bookings. Early-bird tickets are now available for a special rate of £25 to arrive before August 31st 2010. After this date tickets will only be available on the door at the cost of £40. To find out more please read more…
Download a copy of Steve Garner’s ‘Drawing Book List’ here. The original list was published on the DRN forum and readers have shared their own favourites which have been incorporated into one list. If you wish to add to the list please add a comment or recommendation here.
The power of drawing, as a stimulus to perception, creative thinking, imagination, communication, problem solving and visual planning will be explored through a variety of workshops over a weekend. This drawing weekend will take place at the University of Gloucester in Cheltenham from the 3rd to 5th September.
In construction techniques, after pinning the extremities of a thread with nails and covering the thread with a blue pigment, the line is BEATEN. It is in this act of BEATING (the) LINE where the momentum of drawing can be found. DRAWING SPACES Exhibition & Residency between architect João Palla, designer/photographer Pedro do Ó and constructor/photographer João d’Olivença -currently taking place from 29th to 31st July.
C4RD (Centre for Recent Drawing) presents the work of Marco Calí as part of an ‘Online Residency Programme’. For the month of August 2010, Calí will create drawings based on the 1959 film, Tiger Bay. Drawing with ink on three sheets of tracing paper, he will recreate scenes from the film, as still-life of a fictional scene of a past moment.
Here are an interesting assortment of drawing related videos from YouTube ranging from drawing methods to the making of TV and film effects to A-Ha’s ground breaking MTV video for their single “Take On Me” to the launch of Adobe’s first version of Illustrator. Be inspired by some innovative moments in new media as well as being inspired to create your own drawing video and upload to YouTube!
The University of Plymouth and its Partner College network brings together a comprehensive survey of the diverse range of drawing work. The exhibition focuses on the nature, value, and status of drawing as contemporary practice and acts as a platform to illuminate, evaluate, and disseminate current drawing practices within the University Partnership.
The Journal of Visual Culture has recently published an article written by Sara Schneckloth entitled “Marking Time, Figuring Space: Gesture and the Embodied Moment”. Sara works in a variety of media as a way to explore the potential of contemporary drawing practice. She is an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, USA.
The Campaign for Drawing has one aim: to get everyone drawing! Why? Drawing helps us think, invent and communicate – regardless of age and ability. Details of the forthcoming BIG DRAW event due to take place this October can now be found on the Campaign for Drawing website. Find out how to join in an event by reading more…
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