/Hi Suzanne, please see my responses to your questions below. Hope it
helps your research. With kind regards./
Suzanne Duffy wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> This is my first endeavour to make a post and I would be delighted to
> hear peoples views.
>
> Does anyone feel they work with/from images?
> What do you feel you are working from when you draw?
> /Visuals can and do provide a catalyst or stimulus for creating a new
> drawing and I have used photos before as an aid to composition.
> Mostly, I rely less and less on existing images and find that text,
> music, moods, atmosphere, emotion or imagination are more helpful to
> compose a drawing. I try and feel my way through a sketch first and if
> a completed drawing emerges, all well and good.
> /
> Is it memories, new thoughts, hypothetical thoughts, dreams, are you
> applying thoughts to something like an object or place and building
> from there? /All or a combination of the above can apply. Whether
> or not anyone else understands them is not for me to say.
> /
How concious are you of how the image is forming and how deliberate
are you if you are someone who has been drawing for a long
time? /Fairly conscious. Often the same mark-making techniques emerge
and that requires a conscious change to get out of a comfort
zone. I came away from many drawing classes at CSM some months
back not understanding if I was being conscious or deliberate.
However, I did learn to step away and back from my drawing work and
review it.
/
> / /Do experienced drawers find you can almost repeat a drawing? or
> feel that your pace is quickened and less tense?
> /It depends on the subject. Even during a drawing, things change.
> This can be due to environmental conditions, levels of concentration
> or emotion. Repeating a drawing is easier if the subject is
> technically or diagrammatically aesthetic but with expressive work,
> pace can quicken if you're drawing against the clock; stress can
> increase or decrease, slowly or rapidly, depending on what you think
> you're achieving./
> / /I find drawing an intense and erratic experience, coupled with my
> emotions towards describing something, I am also not very respectful
> of the process, at least thats how it feels! When drawing from
> observation I also feel overwhelmed by the number of ways I could make
> an impression or response to the subject.
>
> I guess I am interested in drawings reflecting people's response to a
> subject.
> /I am not sure that I understand this statement. Are you referring to
> your own response to a subject or someone else's?/
> At present I tend to work more on computer, altering and composing
> images, I am happy that the traditional process or medium has been
> removed from my grasp but don't get me wrong I am aware of
> contraversies over the use of computers and also those who embrace
> technology as enabling further the communication or the expressive
> process and look to pursue it's development more radically.
>
> What are your views? /My view is that modern technology is like a
> trap. The traditional process of drawing can never be replaced by a
> robot or computer but //for some professional drawing practioners
> (like simulation modellers, industrial or graphic designers,
> architects etc) a computer is indispensable. //If as an individual,
> you prefer to use computer technology to create your artwork, that's
> your choice. Remember though, that you won't be as free in your mind
> to create original drawing work using a computer as you would using
> paper and your choice(s) of medium because there are constraints in
> software and hardware. You may beg to differ. I used to be quite pro
> IT but I am recently becoming so anti, it's almost technophobic.
> /
Responses greatly appreciated and contrasting views!
>
> Suziexx
>
> Camberwell College of Art, London.
>
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