Thinking About Drawing

Drawing

Drawing is
lines
        coming together
        forming colourable areas
        sculpting pictorial spaces
        giving rise to visual parts.

Drawing is
visual parts
        coming together
        forming pictorial objects.

Lines Coming Together

	Coming together, one line at a time, touching or not, crossing or not, connected or not. Examples:
	An open line
	A line with one end touching itself
	A line crossing itself
	A closed line, connecting on its ends
	Two closed lines, side by side
	Two closed lines, touching
	Two closed lines crossing each other
	One closed line with a second line touch the first on both ends
	Two closed lines, one inside the other
	One closed line with a second line touching the first on one end
	One closed line with a second line touching the first on one end and crossing it multiple times
	Two open lines crossing each other multiple times
	Four open lines touching and crossing one another
	Many open lines, unconnected, floating in parallel
	Many lines, connected

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Forming Colourable Areas

A Colourable area is
pictorial space bounded by lines
            to hold colours.

A Closed area has
closed boundary,
            can receive a single colour.

An Open area has
partial boundary -
open for interpretation.
            Colour gradation naturally occurs
            at undefined border.


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Sculpting Pictorial Spaces

	A space is not pictorial
	until        sculpted with        lines.

	Growing is to
	add lines forming new areas previously unoccupied.

	Dividing is to
	adds lines carving new areas within existing areas.

	Joining is to
	add lines pulling together unconnected areas.

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Visual Parts

Visual parts are
perceived
        when lines come together
        in a certain way.

Visual parts are
used
        for constructing pictorial objects.

Visual parts are
        not unlike alphabets
        to English words.

        And not unlike radicals
        to Chinese characters.

		To see more, follow this link.

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Parts Coming Together

Line by line,
parts form.

Part by part,
objects form.

Not unlike alphabets
forming English words.

Not unlike radicals
forming Chinese characters.

Colour
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Pictures

Examples:







To see more, go to the 10,000 Page Colouring Book.

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