A new article by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou in DIGIMAG Online Journal for Contemporary Digital Art. This two-part essay offers a critical investigation into the notion of operative transformation and its role in the evolution of animation as a means of spatial morphogenesis in architecture, as explored in conjunction with its broader scientific and design contexts.

A collection of interesting links related to drawing in different forms from drawing with light to Rotoscoping to 2D drawing physics games as well as a link to Sketchbook Pro for your Android or iPhone OS smartphones. Enjoy browsing!

A new article by Dr Eugenia Fratzeskou in DIGIMAG Online Journal for Contemporary Digital Art. This three-part essay offers an investigation into the notion of interstitial space and its creative exploration in various site-specific art practices as realised mainly with the use of digital technology. The article contains an excerpt from the first in the series of three.

Drawings2 is a second collection of drawings by Mel Strawn which can now be viewed online. The drawings span some 7 decades of work which began in the 1940s. The majority of drawings are small sketchbooks studies. Some are more ambitious and take the form of paintings or major components of paintings. This great ebook allows the amplification of drawings and can be edited at anytime in the future. So enjoy viewing!

In October 2010, as part of the Big Draw, AccessArt launched the AccessArt Visual Encyclopedia. Drawings were submitted from a wide audience of different kinds of objects found in everyday life. The kind of objects we take for granted, and yet over time, change in style and appearance. The aim was to create a visual encyclopedia

A new drawing research blog by Nick Sousanis takes the form of a comic.
It approaches drawing research using a metaphor of seeing, or seeing through drawing, or a lesson drawing, or on art – or all of the above.
Its well worth a look at

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.