Drawing Texts Extracts
from: Drawing The Line
by Michael Craig-Martin
from: Drawing is…..
by Tom Fitzgerald
from: Walking Drawing, Making Memory
by David Lilburn
from: The Basis Of All Painting and
Sculpture is Drawing by John Berger
from The Basis Of All Painting and Sculpture is Drawing by John Berger
For the artist drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase, it is quite literally true. It is the actual act of drawing that forces the artist to look at the object in front of him, to dissect it in his mind's eye and put it together again; or, if he is drawing from memory, that forces him to dredge his own mind, to discover the content of his own store of past observations. It is a platitude in the teaching of drawing that the heart of the matter lies in the specific process of looking. A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see.