I had my first ITAP lecture yesterday and it was all about our RVJ's (Reflective Visual Journal) more in depth name for a sketchbook. The two principles from the lecture that I have chosen to write about are. Principle 1: Drawing and Principle 2: The Brain.
*i would just like to state that i am completely clueless as to how formal this blog needs to be. i am normally very informal on blogs but i don’t know if because this is uni work i have to be all serious. so I’m going to go with informal for this first one...
Some of the points made in the lecture were about how drawing and being ‘playful’ in creativity creative can really help in using different part of your brain, therefore enabling you to not only produce a different kind of work but also to think differently. “Drawing is thinking” and so anything that can help us think in a different way is highly valuable. I think it’s very interesting that things that are so often expressed in words can actually be expressed in drawing format. It is actually quite liberating to know that if I have a problem I can just get my RVJ out and do some drawing and that by the end of it that problem could be solved. Sometimes if you’re like me, getting ideas out in word format can be a real challenge, but I learnt in lecture that drawing helps get your ideas out of your head onto paper.
Looking at the work of Danny Gregory (http://dannygregory.com/2010/09/journal-xv/ - Posted on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 at 8:22 pm) you can see a clear develpment in the way he thinks out his problems through drawing. In this image he is thinking about motors hand held mixers and irons then very abruptly there is a drawing of his lunch. “Crispy Duck”, “lunch at evergreen...” I love how he really does count it all as important and valid in his ‘on-the-page’ thinking process. It almost denotes that he take very seriously the notion of finding inspiration in everyday objects.
"Learning to draw can also help a person become more detail-oriented" Chesapeake, Virginia (PRWEB) October 06, 2011 (http://drawingsecretsrevealed.com/drawing-and-brain-research-special-report)
My grandfather is an artist and illustrator (he actually studied at BIAD at the Margaret street campus when he was young) he is one of the most detail oriented people I know, and he is also a great illustrator. His many years of learning how to draw and working as a professional illustrator for the council, along with the countless hours put into personal paintings and model making, have transferred to his life where he is a man very interested in the fine detail of life.
I hope one day through learning to draw and use of my left brain I too can become a detail man both in my professional practice and my everyday life.
