''Since you've hit the road, you’ve started to feel like your camera just isn't cutting it anymore. Something about the new scenes in front of you is begging to be seen through a different lens – the artist’s eye.''Carrying a notebook and doing sketches while traveling is something I really wish to do. It's my way of trying to live the moment fully where I could capture every single detail of the journey I had been through by seeing and drawing. It allows me to fully concentrate and immerse myself in the scene as well as the surroundings. I believe a piece of drawing could effectively express the story of my surroundings, the place I live as well as where I travel and most importantly, it is also acts as a record of time.
''Architecture graphic are the key tool on conveying design and create more effective design communication through drawings. Sketching is a matter of drawing a line, then another, and another, until one creates shapes and compositions that recall to the seeing eye the scene set before us. And what we omit from a drawing is just as important as what we include.'' (Francis D.K.Ching., 2015)
I always get inspired from Francis D.K. Ching who is an architecture and design graphic writer. He always used drawings to communicate ideas and informations back in the 1970s ; and then he used drawings to externalize words and things he has thinking about drawing from the mind's eye in his teaching; and finally where he was today is really focusing on drawings on location by observing. He always used the three aspects on his drawing which is seeing, thinking and drawing as a cycle of the drawings process. See'ing of course is what we observe on the surrounding. Thinking always rely on the memory, so he tried to capture what he had seen and draw it from his memory.
"Drawing relies on a clear vision. It also requires thought which, in turn, builds understanding. Drawing cannot be detached from seeing and thinking about the fundamental nature of the subject matter being represented. The knowledge and understanding gained through drawing from life directly enhances our ability to draw from the imagination. Just as thought can be put into words, ideas can be made visible in a drawing to promote visual thinking and further stimulate the imagination. Once what is seen or imagined is made visible in a drawing, the image takes on a life of its own and communicates graphically. However eloquently or crudely, all drawings, speak to the eye." (Wiley., 1989)
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''Architecture graphic are the key tool on conveying design and create more effective design communication through drawings. Sketching is a matter of drawing a line, then another, and another, until one creates shapes and compositions that recall to the seeing eye the scene set before us. And what we omit from a drawing is just as important as what we include.'' (Francis D.K.Ching., 2015)
I always get inspired from Francis D.K. Ching who is an architecture and design graphic writer. He always used drawings to communicate ideas and informations back in the 1970s ; and then he used drawings to externalize words and things he has thinking about drawing from the mind's eye in his teaching; and finally where he was today is really focusing on drawings on location by observing. He always used the three aspects on his drawing which is seeing, thinking and drawing as a cycle of the drawings process. See'ing of course is what we observe on the surrounding. Thinking always rely on the memory, so he tried to capture what he had seen and draw it from his memory.
"Drawing relies on a clear vision. It also requires thought which, in turn, builds understanding. Drawing cannot be detached from seeing and thinking about the fundamental nature of the subject matter being represented. The knowledge and understanding gained through drawing from life directly enhances our ability to draw from the imagination. Just as thought can be put into words, ideas can be made visible in a drawing to promote visual thinking and further stimulate the imagination. Once what is seen or imagined is made visible in a drawing, the image takes on a life of its own and communicates graphically. However eloquently or crudely, all drawings, speak to the eye." (Wiley., 1989)
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Sources :
Francis D.K. Ching. (2015), Seeing.Drawing.Thinking : Drawing Thoughts and Observation. Available at : http://www.frankching.com/wordpress/ Last accessed : 10/12/2015
Wiley. (1989), Drawing : A Creative Process. Available at : http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-111903566X.html Last accessed : 10/12/2015
Taubman College. (2011), Francis D.K. (FRANK) Ching, University of Washington Department of Architecture. Available at : https://vimeo.com/33296611 Last accessed : 10/12/2015