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!

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.

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.

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…

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…

A new article by Dr. Eugenia Fratzeskou entitled: ART AND ARCHITECTURE: INVESTEGATION AT THE BOUNDARIES OF SPACE is now available in Digimag, Issue 52, March edition 2010.
The image called ‘Sky Ear’ (2004) is by architect Usman Hague and shows his installation of the visualization of dynamic evolving space through displaying the electromagnetic fields of a city.

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou new book outlines new developments and pioneering methodologies enabling new spatial research strategies for the advancing site-specific and digital art. The book entitled “Visualising Boolean Set Operations:Real and Virtual Boundaries in Contemporary Site-specific Art” is available through Amazon.

New monograph by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou entitled “New Types of Drawing in Fine Art: The Role of Fluidity in the Creation Process” is now available through Amazon. This presents a study focusing on new types of drawing in fine art, as investigated in relation to their interdisciplinary context.

A 3-day intensive studio-based drawing masterclass that brings together both Fine Art and Art Psychotherapy in relation to drawing practice is due to take place at the University of Herefordshire in Hatfield from 28th to the 30th June 2010. For further details of this event please read further…