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.

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!

New monograph by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou entitled ‘Operative Intersections: Between Site-Specific Drawing and Spatial Digital Diagramming’ is available now through Amazon

Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou will be delivering a lecture at ISEA 2010 RUHR Conference on 27th August 2010 at Dortmund in Germany. It focuses on her latest research and practice in digital site-specific art; through mapping the inter-passages between virtual and actual architectural spaces within virtual environments new relationships emerge between art, architecture, philosophy and virtual reality.

The artist Nicholas Hutcheson has created an ongoing series of short time-lapse drawings of the Antarctic landscape. In 2008 Nicholas spent 8 weeks as an artist in residence for the Austrailian Antarctic Divsion where he produced many drawings as he journeyed in and around the content. On his return he has created an online series of short animations to capture the sense of movement and time within the landscape which he now shares with DRN.

There has been an interesting thread of discussion on the Drawing Research Network Forum (DRN) about thesis resulting from drawing research. This post has been started for those who has any suggested website links where you can find good drawing research thesis. Please feel free to add to this list by adding a comment and the post will be updated to provide a good resource for everyone.

Ecological Artist and Research Fellow at MIRIAD, David Haley shares his publication entitled ‘Draw Attention: Ecology As Art’, which was performed at an arts research conference in Bergen 2005. David maintains that ‘drawing is integral to perception and cognitive understanding’ and adds to the debate on ‘how do artists teach drawing’?

Strings, a dance-drawing performance conceived by Australian visual artist Rochelle Haley and performed by dancers of Rimbun Daham, from Ballatbase, ASWARA. It took place on Saturday 23rd January 2010 at the the Actors Studio in Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia. It provides insights into new ways to produce art and movment. You can watch a video of the performance here.

- THREE A DAY DRAWINGS – THREE DRAWINGS BY DAY –
– By ANDY KRAFT –
Each day Andy Kraft adds three drawings online to create a poetic diary. These drawings include writings of his daily observations and dreams. This is the 3DAD Project that was launched at the beginning of 2010

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