Design is a complex endeavor and central to that process, drawing plays many critical roles. From giving birth to mental images, to communicating instructions regarding assembly and construction, drawing is our primary language. In Direct Drawing we aim to get better prepared to use and understand these roles. Often within a design endeavor parameters shift requiring on the spot revision, improvisation. To this end Direct Drawing will also aim to make quick drawers of each of you. This is no easy task, as quickness is achieved only with deep knowledge, of perspective rules, of proportioning and dividing, of framing and ordering. These come with practice.
Class time will include critiques and presentations, some prolonged drawing sessions of singular topics, and maybe a guest lecture. Following a sequence of drawing assignments, each student will identify a subject. Our key goals will be reconciling differences between what we see and the true measure of a place, diagramming essential structures both physical and experiential, and acquiring speed and clarity in communication. Our primary source for discussion will be our own drawn responses.
