Drawing on the move

Sketchbook Pro – download this useful drawing app for your Smartphone

Drawing Physics Games

Numpty Physics 2D Drawing Game – interesting drawing physics game for download
Crayon Physics Drawing Game – this is an excellent example of a drawing physics game

Drawing with Brushes

Watercolour Brushes for Photoshop – something for your digital experiments

Drawing with Fractals

Canvas Drawing – great for creating backgrounds [use screendump]

Drawing with Light

Drawing by Tracing [Rotoscope]

Related posts:

1. YouTube Drawing Videos Pt 1 Here are an interesting assortment of drawing related videos from...
2. Drawing Theses Links There has been an interesting thread of discussion on the...

I have heard of the cyber field referred to as digital paper, yet I think there is a big difference between cellulose and electric cells of a jell screen. The drawing at the head of this article does use photographs of paper. I should explain that  these are  meaningful to me as they are approximating  a sensation  existing from my handling of certain sketchbooks. In  the process of creating  these books I cut each page so that the overlapping view of the shapes were something like a an architects elevation model, and drew through the book so the images coexist as I went along. In this cyber drawing I used the computer realm in a very different way but something of the feeling remains. That it does so indicates my sympathy for the idea of constructing a pseudo paper wall in computer space,  and so show form through a spatial poetic of  the contrast, like shacks built in museums. Here, the computer is showing overlays of scrolling.

The material sensation of my work in considered  terms of  the question “does abstract drawing propose a meta material?” derives its answer from Asian housebuilding forms that I abstract. The open spaces of joinery forms that provide my image construct maintain for me a traditional sculptural incisiveness of the drawing impulse but the material is something closer to sandstone than marble, it is no known material but it is resistant to the learning curve of my assimilation of the joinery vocabulary.

My art is just drawing but it is more than just marks and seeks the justice of some sense of context to my choice of abstraction – much of this comes out of drawing sensation and intuition, even in an abstract realm.

Related posts:

1. Cyber Drawing and Photo Field Examining the embedding and transpose by which photography and drawing...

The imbedding of ideas in rhizome and trope as drawings designo dessin dassein as I have indicated is a topography of indication excavation and quarrying such as a carving states and in my work the vocabulary of archaric timber framing is mode, modified, scrolled, but all to a language of drawing that is a kind of pidgin, subsuming other languages in its learning interests but really on its own course, like the lonely asteroid its form so resembles in its lonely launch and circuit upon a geological culture could nevertheless in certain circumstances alite upon popular culture.

In Dururs print series of the Life of The Virgin there is expressed likewise the transition to vernacular culture from the original component of a Byzantine landscape tradition of earth as god temple to  a siting of the Virgins life in the age of mechaninical reproduction, the printing press, as an emblazoning of a renewed artscape.

Turning to drawing texts, the visuality of “Drawing On the Left Side of The Brain” has all its moments of planting visualization, but an older text ” The Natural Way To Draw” is a modus operendi I think worth excavating and quarrying in the digital realm.

Related posts:

1. Public Life : Free Drawing A series of guerrilla pop-up drawing events through Islington in...

For those who would like a copy of the emerging DRN Book List you can download it here.

This informal list was begun by Steve Garner from a brief browse of Blackwell’s online bookstore in August 2010.  Using the simple search word ‘drawing’ resulted in 1000’s of returned books and I selected a number of titles potentially interesting  to the DRN community.  I have included very few drawing manuals in the list.  The list was originally published on the DRN Forum  and readers shared their own favourites which have been incorported into the current DRN Book List for you to download. Some details are more complete than others.

This list doesn’t purport to be anything special – just a list of books and links you might find interesting or useful. There’s probably many other useful drawing titles still to be added. Apologies for any errors. Please feel free to continue to share your own lists or titles here.  You can post a comment with your suggestions and they will be added to the list.

Related posts:

1. New book on Drawing and Philosophy by Jac Saorsa Jac Saorsa has a new book just released, which is...
2. DIALOGO | DIALOGUE The dalla Rosa Gallery in London are proud to present...
3. Wall Drawing Online by: Greig Burgoyne: seein’ ain’t beleivin’ Gracefield Galleries in Dumfries in Scotland presented a large scale...

This first video shows a brief history of the Google Doodle – the various designs for Googles logo on the home page. The video explores the origins of the Doodle and how creating these designs has created a worldwide community of contributors.

The Human Face

This video demonstrates the basics of sketching the human face. The outline of a face, drawn by creating an oval shape, is divided into equal proportions then features added. You might want to turn the sound down – the music gets really annoying after a while!

Adobe Illustrator 1.0

This Illustrator 1.0 demonstration is taken from the original VHS cassette released way back in 1987. Makes interesting viewing for those who have been using Illustrator over the years!

Take On Me – A-Ha

These two videos probably mean the most to those who grew up in the 1980′s. Take On Me was a landmark music video created for MTV whether you appreciate the finer points of A-Ha or not. The rotoscoping style and interesting story made it one of the most original music videos ever made. Here is the original video and also, a second video showing interviews with the animators and band.

The original MTV music video

The interviews

Tron

Following on from the previous 80′s theme is a video showing the making of the first mainstream computer animated film “Tron”, which was released in 1982 but overshadowed by the release of ET. This innovative and groundbreaking piece of work is often overlooked and underated.

Making a drawing video

If you can get past the awful introduction sequence, this video covers some of the basics [such as white balance, focus, exposure] of creating a live drawing video. One solution for digital drawing would be to download some screen capture software and record the screen whilst you draw with an input device – free software like http://camstudio.org/ would do the trick nicely [I used that to create the DRN demo video on the top right]. Download directly.

Related posts:

1. Interesting and Inspiring Drawing Links and Videos A collection of interesting links related to drawing in different...
2. 6 Digital Drawing Experiments There are a variety of drawing experiments and tools on...
3. The New DRN Website The Drawing Research Network has a brand new website with...

Here’s two suggestions for links if you wish to search for drawing related theses:

Index to Theses – A comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts: http://www.theses.com/

British Library EThOS Electronic Theses Online Service: http://ethos.bl.uk/Home.do

The Centre for Drawing – University of the Arts London www.thecentrefordrawing.org

Related posts:

1. Interesting and Inspiring Drawing Links and Videos A collection of interesting links related to drawing in different...
2. ISEA 2010 RUHR Conference Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou will be delivering a lecture at ISEA...
3. Exhibition of drawing in Bergen, Norway | Bisensual Explorations into sensory ambiguities form a starting point for the...

David Haley shares his publication: Draw Attention: Art As Ecology

Some time ago I posted a paper on the (earlier) DRN website and I’ve attached it here.  The paper, ‘Draw attention: Art As Ecology’, was performed at an arts research conference in Bergen in 2005 using a blackboard and chalks, a ball of string and the bodies of the audience, so the text is a little unconventional.  But you should get some of the ideas and I still maintain that drawing is integral to perception and cognitive understanding.

As an artist engaged in ecological concerns, drawing (‘draughting’) the relationships is a way of visually rendering systems – making complexity manifest.  And, personally, this discipline may be traced back to the Saturday morning classes, through Foundation to my Fine Art Painting course at Camberwell in the late 60s / early 70s.  Of course, it actually goes back to when I was four years old and the drawings I did were valued – this was never educated out of me.

And so, as student demand increases for ‘Drawing on Life’, universities close such classes in favour of the remote, the digital and the virtual.  While I support and embrace new technologies along side traditional techniques, I would adopt the old Musicians Union slogan, ‘Keep Art Live’.

David Haley
Research Fellow at MIRIAD (Manchester Institute for Research and Innovation in Art and Design)
Manchester Metropolitan University

Related posts:

1. The Edge of Things This major solo exhibition features a selection of the artist...
2. Gesture & Trace In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of...
3. Asteroid Finished Sizes Drawing On The LIfe Of The Virgin The theme of this post relates to carving traditions that...

In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of a dancer are transformed into a series of lines drawn live by Rochelle Haley. Other dancers then use these visual cues to interpret their own movement. A unique performative process which changes every time it is performed, Strings gives us insight into new ways to produce art and movement.

Watch the Videos Here: Strings Part One (Aprox: 3 mins) and Strings Part Two (Aprox: 8 mins)

www.rochellehaley.com

Related posts:

1. Gesture & Trace In a collision between dance and drawing, the movements of...

http://www.3dad.eu

Each day, online you can find three pictures of Andy Kraft.  This is a journal of poetry, writing daily and dreaming – like unfinished images that follow and answer – as a dialog with the user and more…

Related posts:

1. Tracey: Journal Call-Deadline TRACEY is an electronic open access journal dedicated to the...