Archive for the ‘Drawing’ Category
Repetition
Digesting letterforms through making them by hand. Lots of patience and lots of starting over. It’s really good for me.
Rhythm
Exercise in establishing rhythm. Not so successful.
Heritage
In my Form and Communication class we were instructed to keep a detailed sketchbook. The goal is to develop in us a deep sense of process and to always keep our brains moving and to stay creative in our sketchbooks. This wasn’t really new for me, I’ve been doing this since grade school; but what was a nice change of pace were the assignments given to be done in the sketchbook. While illustrating my family tree with colored ink, a circle stencil and a mechanical pencil, drawing baselines and cap heights I was staring at where I’ve come from. All the people who made my life possible and working in the tools that those in my profession used before me.
The Importance of Drawing
Before I could start at RISD for real they wanted me to take a condensed version of their foundation studies year. All freshmen coming into RISD take an entire year of 2D design, Drawing and 3D design before declaring their major.
At first I was skeptical. I’ve taken so many drawing classes, so many design classes, what was I going to learn? The drawing class was what I was least excited about. Over the past few years I’d come to terms with my drawing skills and wasn’t really interested in learning how to do things the ‘right way.’ I knew drawing is important to me as a graphic designer, I knew it’s a great skill to quickly communicate an idea, but I wasn’t really interested in developing this skill much further. I was kind of happy with where I was at.