PURPOSES of DRAWINGPERCEPTION
- DRAWING THAT ASSISTS THE ORDERING OF SENSATIONS, FEELINGS, IDEAS AND THOUGHTS
- The drawing is done primarily for the need, pleasure, interests or benefit of the person doing the drawing. It can enable them to explore and develop observation and interpretive skills to investigate and understand the world.
PURPOSES of DRAWINGCOMMUNICATION
- DRAWING THAT ASSISTS THE PROCESS OF MAKING IDEAS, THOUGHTS AND FEELINGS AVAILABLE TO OTHERS
- Here the intention is to communicate sensations, feelings or ideas to someone else. It is likely that certain codes or conventions will be used so that the individual viewer or a group will be helped to understand what is being communicated. It might be for an unknown audience.
PURPOSES of DRAWINGINVENTION
- DRAWING THAT ASSISTS THE CREATIVE MANIPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THOUGHT.
- Ideas are at an embryonic stage unformed or partly formed at the beginning of the process of drawing. Ideas take shape when the drawer experiences ‘reflexive oscillation’ between impulse, ideas and marks appearing on the page, which prompt further thought and mark-making.
There are many purposes of drawing such: describe or record something, document some evidence or history, explore different objects or nature, remember the past or past moments, change people understanding or thinking, express feelings and emotions and many more.Usually all our drawings come from our memory. It could be the feeling which we felt in the past and remember now, evidence or life moments which happened to us and stuck in our memory, or some places which we remember we visited before and which made influence for us and were important.One of the greatest example how memory is represented by drawing is Stephen Wiltshire creation. I found out about his artist few years ago when I visited Science Museum in London. It just amazing how strong his memory is and how perfect his drawings is.Stephen Wiltshire is an artist who draws and paints detailed cityscapes. He has a particular talent for drawing lifelike, accurate representations of cities, sometimes after having only observed them briefly. He was awarded an MBE for services to the art world in 2006. He studied Fine Art at City & Guilds Art College. His work is popular all over the world, and is held in a number of important collections.
Stephen was born in London, United Kingdom to West Indian parents on 24th April, 1974. As a child he was mute, and did not relate to other people. Aged three, he was diagnosed as autistic. He had no language and lived entirely in his own world.At the age of five, Stephen was sent to Queensmill School in London, where it was noticed that the only pastime he enjoyed was drawing. It soon became apparent he communicated with the world through the language of drawing; first animals, then London buses, and finally buildings. These drawings show a masterful perspective, a whimsical line, and reveal a natural innate artistry.
Stephen took on his largest project to date in May 2005, when he returned to Tokyoto make a panoramic drawing – the largest of his career – of the city. Two months later he drew a similarly detailed picture of Rome, including the Vatican and St. Peter’s Cathedral, entirely from memory.In December, after a 20-minute helicopter ride, Stephen spent a week creating a 10-meter-long drawing of Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour and the surrounding urban scene. (He dedicated the work as a Christmas present to the city’s residents.) Since then he added Frankfurt, Madrid, Dubai, Jerusalem and London to his collection. The last drawing in the series was of his spiritual home, New York. Further trips followed to Sydney and Shanghai in 2010. (stephenwiltshire.co.uk. Accessed 17 January 2015)
Stephen Wiltshire drawing Tokyo, 2005
London Panorama by Stephen Wiltshire, 2008
New York panorama by Stephen Wiltshire, 2009
In response to that I would like to share my memory map drawing which shows the way from my home to University of Bedfordshire. I found this task very interesting and funny as I am living in London, my way to University is long and confusing. I tried to show the map which would show my way clear and understandable.
As I think deeper about drawing some places from memory, many of them for someone could look just drawing of landscape or room space but as we look deeper all these places tells something.
This was drawn in the evenings whilst saying at Juniper Cottage at Grassmere in the Lakes. It is one of the very few drawing not done from a reference photograph but entirely freehand.Drawn on Bristol Board Smooth using Derwent Graphite pencils.
I found this drawing by accident. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find the author of this drawing but I would like to use to exprss my thoughts. We can see that this just the drawing of window from this we can see the garden. At first glance, it does not say nothing but what kind of feeling it brings? For me is cosy living room window from this I can see garden in summer time. The feelings which come up for me is nostalgia for my childhood, the window by itself reminds me the long summer days in grandmother house. This drawing makes me feel comfortable and safe. Memory is powerful and with memory help we can draw some close places to us or even see other artist drawing and connect them with our feelings and thoughts. In my opinion, all the drawing we make are somehow effected by our own memory, that’s why we draw so different from each other – everyone memory and story is different.
References:
http://www.stephenwiltshire.co.uk/biography.aspx accessed 17 January 2015.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1583604/Stephen-Wiltshire-the-human-camera-who-drew-London-from-memory.html accessed 17 January 2015
http://www.rookyard.org.uk/html/cottage_window.html accessed 17 January 2015
